Professor Patrick Devine-Wright

Personal statement:

I am an environmental social scientist with a primary interest in the social acceptance of energy transitions, community engagement and place attachment. With expertise spanning human geography and environmental psychology, I was cited in the top 1% of social science scholars globally by Web of Science in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. I was an IPCC Lead Author on social aspects of climate mitigation in AR6 and sit on the Devon Climate Task Force.

Key topic areas of research or interest:

• Climate change mitigation
• Sustainable energy transitions
• Place attachment
• Energy and environmental citizenship
• Public participation and deliberation
• Community engagement and acceptance

Publications:

• Place Attachment: Advances in theory, method and applications
• Beyond NIMBYism: towards an integrated framework for understanding public perceptions of wind energy Wind Energy
• Rethinking NIMBYism: the role of place attachment and place identity in explaining place protective action Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
• Community Renewable Energy: What does it mean? Energy Policy
• Think global, act local? The relevance of place attachments and place identities in a climate changed world. Global Environmental Change Science Energy
• Community versus local energy in a context of climate emergency Nature Energy
• ‘Positive parochialism’, local belonging and ecological concerns: revisiting Common Ground’s Parish Maps project Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
• Placing people at the heart of climate action PLOS Climate
• Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda Energy Research and Social Science

A full list of publications can be found here