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Niskanen, J., Anshelm, J. & Haikola, S. (2024). A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009-2022. Political Geography, 108, Article ID 103017.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009-2022
2024 (English)In: Political Geography, ISSN 0962-6298, E-ISSN 1873-5096, Vol. 108, article id 103017Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Wind power production is expanding globally and with this comes social resistance. In this article, we study controversies concerning the expansion of wind power in Sweden between 2009 and 2022. To this end, we study national press coverage and local press coverage from Sweden's 290 municipalities. Despite previous studies showing that Swedish people are generally in favour of expanding wind power, our results show that this policy is controversial and often is met with significant local resistance. We identify a clash between two environmental concerns: developing national policies to mitigate the effects of climate change and local opinions calling for the preservation of natural landscapes, which are often coupled with concerns about whether expansion of wind power leads to positive climate effects. We analyse national and local discourses through a multi-level governance perspective, a view that argues Sweden's market-oriented and decentralized wind power planning regime feeds the controversy. In conclusion, the dispersal of power throughout the planning system facilitates scaling up of local resistance to an energy policy issue of national concern, creating significant uncertainty about the expansion of wind power in Sweden.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2024
Keywords
Wind power; Sweden; Social resistance; Climate policy; Distributed governance; Discourse analysis; Multi-level perspective
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-199962 (URN)10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103017 (DOI)001125409600001 ()
Note

Funding Agencies|Swedish Energy Agency [52641-1]

Available from: 2024-01-09 Created: 2024-01-09 Last updated: 2024-10-18
Haikola, S., Anshelm, J. & Niskanen, J. (2024). Beyond the backyard: Scaling up of resistance to wind power in Sweden. Environmental Challenges, 16, Article ID 100987.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Beyond the backyard: Scaling up of resistance to wind power in Sweden
2024 (English)In: Environmental Challenges, ISSN 2667-0100, Vol. 16, article id 100987Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Since 2009, when a municipal veto right was established, wind power in Sweden has become intensely politicised and questioned. Having been considered the key technology to drive the energy system transition by all parliamentary parties before 2010, the 2022 elections brought into power a government that promised an end to the “steel forests of wind turbines”. Based on a comprehensive analysis of media coverage of wind power conflicts on national and local levels, the study explains these developments as a discursive struggle. It shows how localised and fragmented resistance groups evolved into generalised opposition to wind power per se. These shifts are explained as enabled by political, legal and discursive opportunity structures.

The study shows how political, legal and discursive opportunities allow for the scaling up of localised resistance to wind power. It explains wind power resistance as embedded in socio-political structures by analysing the relationship between resistance claims on different institutional and geographic scales. While previous research has identified a need to look beyond formal planning processes and at wider sociopolitical contexts to understand the formation of wind power resistance, there is a lack of comprehensive, longitudinal studies of how local resistance shift scales into national resistance. We provide a theoretically informed and empirically grounded analysis of a national case of growing wind power resistance. By showing the speed with which a counter discourse was able to shift scales and gain an entrenched position in Swedish energy politics, the paper enables an understanding of similar developments around Europe.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2024
Keywords
Wind power; Wind energy; Social acceptance; NIMBY; Land use; Planning; Resistance; Environmental conflict; Environmental protest
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-206142 (URN)10.1016/j.envc.2024.100987 (DOI)
Funder
Swedish Energy Agency, 52641-1Swedish Energy Agency
Available from: 2024-08-07 Created: 2024-08-07 Last updated: 2024-09-20
Niskanen, J., Haikola, S., Magnusson, D. & Anshelm, J. (2024). Swedish wind power expansion: Conflicting responsibilities between state and municipalities. Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, 206, Article ID 114881.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Swedish wind power expansion: Conflicting responsibilities between state and municipalities
2024 (English)In: Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, ISSN 1364-0321, E-ISSN 1879-0690, Vol. 206, article id 114881Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Sweden has experienced two decades of wind power expansion and enters a broad diffusion phase. In this study the aim is to deepen the knowledge of the municipal role in this phase in relation to national wind power policy. Local public officials and politicians was interviewed in fourteen Swedish municipalities. The results show that municipal representatives experience great uncertainty about the responsibilities and incentives they have in the energy transition – responsibilities that are difficult to interpret but also difficult to realize in practice. In conclusion, unclear State policy, increased social resistance, lacking municipal capabilities, and a market-driven planning regime adds a burden of incongruous responsibility on municipalities, which risks enforcing uncertainties in the transition of the national energy system. The study brings socio-technical insight to the global expansion of renewable energy within decentralized political systems.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2024
Keywords
Land-based; wind power; Sweden; Distributed governance; Climate policy; Energy transition; Municipal planning
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-207017 (URN)10.1016/j.rser.2024.114881 (DOI)001309657600001 ()
Funder
Swedish Energy Agency, 52641–1
Available from: 2024-08-28 Created: 2024-08-28 Last updated: 2024-12-04Bibliographically approved
Niskanen, J., Anshelm, J. & Haikola, S. (2023). A new discourse coalition in the Swedish transport infrastructure debate 2016–2021. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 116, Article ID 103611.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A new discourse coalition in the Swedish transport infrastructure debate 2016–2021
2023 (English)In: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, ISSN 1361-9209, E-ISSN 1879-2340, Vol. 116, article id 103611Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Sweden has set itself aspirational climate goals to reduce its fossil fuel dependence, and has the ambition of being a global climate transition leader. These goals have proven difficult to achieve in the transport system. In this paper we describe the development since 2016 of a broad and heterogeneous discourse coalition in favour of more strategic governance in Swedish transport planning, encompassing business, trade unions, environmental experts and green-left politicians. We first analyse their claims for a radical reorientation of Swedish transport planning, which are shown to focus on fiscal rules, a lack of political courage, and slow-moving environmental legislation processes, as three main reasons why the transport system is slow to transition. We then discuss whether these claims constitute a politicisation of the climate policy discourse, or rather a new iteration of the previously depoliticised discourse.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2023
Keywords
Transport infrastructure; Ecological modernisation; Sweden Industrial policy
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-191253 (URN)10.1016/j.trd.2023.103611 (DOI)000991230000001 ()
Note

Funding: Swedish Energy Agency [48746-1]

Available from: 2023-01-24 Created: 2023-01-24 Last updated: 2023-06-13Bibliographically approved
Kaijser, A., Storm, A., Kaiserfeld, T., Anshelm, J., Elam, M., Högselius, P., . . . Sundqvist, G. (2023). Jämförelsen är helt vilseledande. Svenska Dagbladet, 25 november
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2023 (Swedish)In: Svenska Dagbladet, 25 november, ISSN 1101-2412Article in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm, Sweden: Svenska Dagbladet AB & Co., 2023
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203284 (URN)
Available from: 2024-05-06 Created: 2024-05-06 Last updated: 2024-05-17Bibliographically approved
Kaijser, A., Storm, A., Kaiserfeld, T., Anshelm, J., Elam, M., Högselius, P., . . . Sundqvist, G. (2023). Låt investerare bedöma riskerna – inte staten. Svenska Dagbladet, 21 november
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2023 (Swedish)In: Svenska Dagbladet, 21 novemberArticle in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm, Sweden: Svenska Dagbladet AB & Co., 2023
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203305 (URN)
Available from: 2024-05-06 Created: 2024-05-06 Last updated: 2024-05-17Bibliographically approved
Haikola, S. & Anshelm, J. (2023). Staten, marknaden och industripolitikens återupprättelse: Visioner om transportsystemets klimatomställning, 2006-2022. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Staten, marknaden och industripolitikens återupprättelse: Visioner om transportsystemets klimatomställning, 2006-2022
2023 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Trots upprepade politiska utfästelser om att transportsystemet ska bli fossilfritt har dess omställning gått trögt. Det har länge funnits en påtaglig kontrast mellan visionerna för transportsystemets omställning och de faktiskt vidtagna åtgärderna. De dominerande förklaringarna till denna kontrast, liksom föreställningarna om vad som kan göras, har skiftat över tid och beroende på vilken regering som suttit vid makten. I grunden kretsar de emellertid alltid kring samma frågor: Hur väl rustat är det svenska planeringssystemet för att genomföra en fundamental omställning av transporterna? I vilken omfattning kräver transportsystemets omställning en mer djupgående förändring av samhället? Vilken roll bör stat och marknad ha i transportsystemets omställning? I denna bok skildrar vi hur den offentliga diskussionen om transportsystemet förändrats under de fyra olika regeringar som suttit vid makten mellan 2006-2022. Genom att följa formuleringen av politiska visioner i statliga utredningar och hur dessa visioner diskuterats i den offentliga debatten visar vi hur en period av utpräglat marknadsliberal politik utmanas av klimatkeynesianistiska idéer. Samtidigt har hela undersökningsperioden karakteriserats av betydande institutionella låsningar.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023. p. 146
Series
Tema T Report, ISSN 0280-8552 ; 51
Keywords
klimatpolitik transportpolitik nyliberalism industripolitik transportvisioner transportmedel miljöaspekter
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-192281 (URN)10.3384/9789180750790 (DOI)9789180750783 (ISBN)9789180750790 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2020-02957Swedish Energy Agency, 48746-1
Available from: 2023-03-10 Created: 2023-03-10 Last updated: 2023-06-08Bibliographically approved
Kaijser, A., Storm, A., Kaiserfeld, T., Anshelm, J., Mark, E., Högselius, P., . . . Sundqvist, G. (2023). Stoppa de enorma kreditgarantierna till kärnkraft. Svenska Dagbladet, 16 november
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Stoppa de enorma kreditgarantierna till kärnkraft
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2023 (Swedish)In: Svenska Dagbladet, 16 novemberArticle in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm, Sweden: Svenska Dagbladet AB & Co., 2023
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203306 (URN)
Available from: 2024-05-06 Created: 2024-05-06 Last updated: 2024-05-17Bibliographically approved
Anshelm, J. & Haikola, S. (2022). Hydropower (1sted.). In: Benjamin Hale, Andrew Light, Lydia Lawhon (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics: (pp. 349-358). New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hydropower
2022 (English)In: The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics / [ed] Benjamin Hale, Andrew Light, Lydia Lawhon, New York: Routledge, 2022, 1st, p. 349-358Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter analyses the history of opposition to large-scale hydropower in Sweden and reasons it succeed in using ethical arguments to stop further expansion of hydropower in the 1970s. It finds that framing of oppositional arguments, elite participation, the existence of nuclear power as a plausible energy alternative and a political opportunity in the form of parliamentary dynamics were prerequisites for its success.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Routledge, 2022 Edition: 1st
National Category
Ethics History Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-190389 (URN)10.4324/9781315768090-35 (DOI)9781138784925 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-12-06 Created: 2022-12-06 Last updated: 2023-01-31Bibliographically approved
Haikola, S. & Anshelm, J. (2022). The modern railway and the Swedish state - Competing storylines about state capacity, modernisation and material dependencies in the Swedish high-speed rail discourse, 1995–2020. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 24(3), 325-342
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The modern railway and the Swedish state - Competing storylines about state capacity, modernisation and material dependencies in the Swedish high-speed rail discourse, 1995–2020
2022 (English)In: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, ISSN 1523-908X, E-ISSN 1522-7200, Vol. 24, no 3, p. 325-342Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In contrast to its successful decarbonisation of the electricity system, Sweden has failed to achieve momentum in its attempts to decarbonise transport. This paper examines the reasons for this failure by investigating the discourse around investment in Swedish transport infrastructure. Our analysis focusses specifically on discussions about establishing high-speed rail (HSR) spanning 25 years. We identify three central discursive themes: the issue of financing, the role of the state in socio-technical change, and fatalism. We then trace these themes to storylines within the HSR discourse that each tell a story about good transport governance, informed by a specific interpretation of Swedish modernisation. Four storylines converge in a ‘‘deflationary’’ discourse coalition, characterised by ideas of sound finance and depoliticised governance, that reinforces material dependencies on existing transport infrastructure. A competing, ‘‘Weberian’’ discourse coalition is united through a contrasting storyline that instead highlights state capacity as evidenced by Swedish modernisation.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022
Keywords
Transport decarbonisation; discourse coalitions; high-speed rail; environmental politics; political sociology; Swedish politics
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-183037 (URN)10.1080/1523908X.2022.2038104 (DOI)000753789600001 ()2-s2.0-85125140109 (Scopus ID)
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Funding: Swedish Energy AgencySwedish Energy AgencyMaterials & Energy Research Center (MERC); Swedish Research CouncilSwedish Research CouncilEuropean Commission [48746-1]

Available from: 2022-02-21 Created: 2022-02-21 Last updated: 2023-04-14Bibliographically approved
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