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Asset-based community development in the energy sector: energy and regional policy lessons from community power in Japan

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While promoting the expansion of alternative energy resources from the bottom-up, community ownership of assets is an important means to strengthen community resilience through local stakeholder engagement. This article argues that asset-based community development in the energy sector (ABCD-E) is a useful concept to frame our understanding of current Japanese community power initiatives which aim to reduce local dependencies on core executive decision-making and resource distribution, hence to reconfigure state--society and intergovernmental relations. Based on a case study of renewable energy projects in the City of Iida, located in Nagano Prefecture, empirical evidence for this multi-sectoral, place-based policy approach from Japan is provided. However, the tradition of central state authoritarianism, the interdependence and overlapping jurisdictional boundaries in the energy and regional policy areas, and vested interests of powerful interest groups pose strong barriers to energy-related ABCD functionality in the context of multi-level governance constraints.

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  • Thomas Feldhoff, 2016. "Asset-based community development in the energy sector: energy and regional policy lessons from community power in Japan," International Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(3), pages 261-277, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:21:y:2016:i:3:p:261-277
    DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2016.1185939
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    1. Timothy Fraser & Daniel P. Aldrich, 2020. "The Fukushima effect at home: The changing role of domestic actors in Japanese energy policy," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(5), September.
    2. Robert Wade & Geraint Ellis, 2022. "Reclaiming the Windy Commons: Landownership, Wind Rights, and the Assetization of Renewable Resources," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-31, May.
    3. Jouni Häkli & Kirsi Pauliina Kallio & Olli Ruokolainen, 2020. "A Missing Citizen? Issue Based Citizenship in City‐Regional Planning," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(5), pages 876-893, September.
    4. Zechariah Lange, 2020. "Bridges Don’t Make Themselves: Using Community-Based Theater to Reshape Relationships: Rethinking the Idea of Abundance in ABCD," Societies, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-15, July.
    5. Timothy Fraser & Lily Cunningham & Amos Nasongo, 2021. "Build Back Better? Effects of Crisis on Climate Change Adaptation Through Solar Power in Japan and the United States," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 21(1), pages 54-75, Winter.
    6. Hana Kim, 2017. "A Community Energy Transition Model for Urban Areas: The Energy Self-Reliant Village Program in Seoul, South Korea," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(7), pages 1-18, July.

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