Patrick Devine‐Wright

University of Exeter — United Kingdom

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

69h-index19.9kcitations225works10.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy(103), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance(54), Environmental Education and Sustainability(44), Place Attachment and Urban Studies(36), Climate Change Communication and Perception(35)

Publications225 total

Spatial imaginaries underpin community objections to shale gas exploration in the UK
Geoforum·2025Open Access
Prospects for public participation in energy transitions in Canada: Householders' interests in hosting, coordinating, and trading electricity at the local level
Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes·2025Open Access
Realising a locally-embedded just transition: Sense of place, lived experience, and social perceptions of industrial decarbonisation in the United Kingdom
Global Environmental Change·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Integrating citizens’ assemblies into local climate governance: Lessons from a UK case study
Environmental Science & Policy·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Five ways to improve net zero action – our new research highlights lessons from the past
2025
A Place-based, Just Transition framework can guide industrial decarbonisation with a social licence
Energy Research & Social Science·2025· 18 citedOpen Access
How stakeholders legitimate ‘acceptable’ national energy transitions through spatial imaginaries and imagined publics: A Swedish case study
Energy Research & Social Science·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Energy communities—lessons learnt, challenges, and policy recommendations
Oxford Open Energy·2025· 20 citedOpen Access
IDRIC Frontiers Report: Public Perceptions and Just Transitions
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Who is the ‘public’ when it comes to public opinion on energy? A mixed-methods study of revealed and elicited public attitudes to shale gas extraction
Energy Research & Social Science·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Clear support for an unclear concept? Public attitudes towards local energy systems in the United Kingdom
Energy Research & Social Science·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada
Energy Research & Social Science·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Putting energy infrastructure into place: A systematic review
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews·2024· 36 citedOpen Access
Place-based reflexivity for just energy social science
Nature Energy·2024· 38 citedOpen Access
Imagining and emplacing net zero industrial clusters: A critical analysis of stakeholder discourses
Geo Geography and Environment·2024· 13 citedOpen Access
The “four Ds” and support for Local Smart Grids: analysis from national surveys in the UK and Canada
Oxford Open Energy·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
On the importance of qualitative research in environmental psychology
Journal of Environmental Psychology·2023· 21 citedOpen Access
On the importance of qualitative research in environmental psychology
2023· 3 citedOpen Access
“Do you Know What's Underneath your Feet?”: Underground Landscapes &amp; Place‐Based Risk Perceptions of Proposed Shale Gas Sites in Rural British Communities<sup>☆</sup>
Rural Sociology·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Demand, Services and Social Aspects of Mitigation
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2023· 116 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Susana Batel(6), Gordon Walker(5), Katherine N. Irvine(3), Kevin J. Gaston(3), Susan Clayton(3), Lynne C. Manzo(3), Richard A. Fuller(2), Sue Hunter(2), Bob Evans(2), Lorraine Whitmarsh(2), Amanda R. Carrico(2), Linda Steg(2), Janet K. Swim(2), Mirilia Bonnes(2), Stewart Barr(2), Matthew Cotton(2), Philip H. Warren(1), Yuko Howes(1), Helen High(1), Paul C. Stern(1)