{"id":284,"date":"2019-05-15T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclearsocieties\/?page_id=284"},"modified":"2019-05-15T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:03:40","slug":"prof-patrick-devine-wright-professor-in-human-geography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/nuclear-societies\/prof-patrick-devine-wright-professor-in-human-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Patrick Devine-Wright &#8211; Professor in Human Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Patrick Devine-Wright is an environmental social scientist who draws from disciplines such as Human Geography and Environmental Psychology, at the University of Exeter. He\u00a0specialises in researching significant, policy-relevant environmental problems using an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that is theoretically informed and has clear pathways to impact.<\/p>\n<h3>Broad research specialisms:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>understanding the symbolic and affective dimensions of people-place relations, particularly concepts of place attachment and place identity<\/li>\n<li>investigating social and psychological aspects of siting new energy infrastructure such as wind farms and power lines, including &#8216;NIMBYism\u2019 and public engagement<\/li>\n<li>understanding the motivation for pro-environmental and pro-social actions, particularly conceptions of citizenship applied to energy and environmental problems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He is a Lead Author for the IPCC Working Group III in the 6th Assessment Round contributing to a chapter on &#8216;Demand, Services and Social Aspects of Mitigation&#8217;. He contributes the International Energy Agency&#8217;s Task 28 on Social Acceptance of Wind Energy and has been a member of the\u00a0National Advisory Group for\u00a0EirGrid (the Irish electricity grid operator) since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the Peer Review Group for the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy; and was formerly a member of the Social Science Expert Panel advising Defra and DECC. He was an invited member of the\u00a0National Advisory Group steering\u00a0the UK Community Renewables Initiatives between 2001 and 2006; and acted as Lead Expert to the Office of Science and Technology\u2019s Foresight Project on Sustainable Energy and the Built Environment (2008).<\/p>\n<p>He sits on the board of several academic journals including Global Environmental Change,\u00a0Energy Research and\u00a0Social Science, Journal of Environmental Psychology and Environment and Behavior. He edited a book on \u2018Public Engagement with Renewable Energy: From NIMBY to Participation&#8217; published by Earthscan in 2011.\u00a0A book on &#8216;Place Attachment&#8217;, co-edited with Dr. Lynne Manzo (University of Washington), was published by Routledge in 2013, for which we received the annual 2014 Achievement Award from the US Environmental Design Research Association.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Devine-Wright is the Leader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/geography.exeter.ac.uk\/research\/groups\/envirosus\/\">Environment and Sustainability Research Group<\/a> at the University of Exeter, and his\u00a0 \u00a0Staff Profile page can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/geography.exeter.ac.uk\/staff\/index.php?web_id=Patrick_Devine_Wright\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Patrick Devine-Wright is an environmental social scientist who draws from disciplines such as Human Geography and Environmental Psychology, at the University of Exeter. 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