Processes of decision making on energy issues: micro and macro analysis (the case of Poland 2015)

• Authors: Iwińska Katarzyna , Ruszkowski Paweł
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Article tackles the idea of environmental and participatory democracy in Poland. Due to Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters known as the Aarhus Convention people should be involved in decisions concerning environment and energy issues in the country. All large investments, and those are certainly investments in energy infrastructure, are associated with a variety of interest groups and organizations. The main goal of this article is to show the decision making processes do not come across the knowledge and public information on nuclear energy in Poland. We present the context and background for the structural model of energy decisions using and reinterpreting survey data from 2014 and 2015 from the opinion polls on various sources of energy in Poland. From this point of departure we distinguish the micro-, meso- and macro- level of energy decisions.

Keywords

EN

democracy; energy sources; citizens' participation

• Publisher: European Association for Security
• Journal: Securitologia
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 2 (22)
• Pages: 95-106

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Iwińska Katarzyna

• Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland

author

Ruszkowski Paweł

• Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/18984509.1206790