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Alternative proposals to NIMBY were advanced, but it is still evident that some of those maintain presuppositions of NIMBY and that this area of research needs more integration, namely at a theoretical level. In this paper we argue that to overcome those aspects it is relevant, first, to situate the promotion of renewable energy production as a social change process in today\u2019s societies, and, second, to therefore consider the socio-psychological aspects involved in people\u2019s responses to social change. 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