Indeed, acceptance of infrastructures is crucial, as two projects in Germany exemplify: First, the SuedLink project is supposed to transport electricity from offshore wind parks on the northern German coast toward southern industrial recipients.
Using Germany as a case study, we analyse public acceptance of energy infrastructure and its main drivers on local vs. national levels.
As the JRC research has found, it is generally the case that the social acceptance of large infrastructure projects is mostly interested in the passive consent for the construction of such projects [7].
Ultimately, this is expected to lead to higher acceptance or acceptability of energy infrastructure projects [41].
The purpose of this study was to open a new perspective on the aesthetics of elevated urban transit infrastructure with the goal of influencing public preferences and acceptance of this type of infrastructure.
The basic reason smart cards haven't taken off in the U.S. has less to do with consumer acceptance than with the lack of infrastructure to support them in wide deployments, analysts say.
Even in the extraordinary situation where interaction concerns infrastructure, and where acceptance (understood as civil tolerance of infrastructure by absence of protest) is the preponderant form of social coordination, trust still plays an important role.
Despite an influx of funds from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund), Mozambique remains woefully undercapacitated in its medical infrastructure, social acceptance of risk reduction strategies, and its health manpower [ 86].
There are alternatives, such as bed nets and prophylactic drugs, but limitations of cost, user acceptance and infrastructure mean that they offer no easy fix.There are, however, three useful steps against DDT that the treaty negotiators could agree on.
The arrival of the electric vehicle era has been hindered by technological obstacles, including a lack of infrastructure, high costs and slow acceptance at a time when hybrid vehicles are already well established.
