The ‘Social Gap’ in Wind Farm Siting Decisions: Explanations and Policy Responses

By D. Bell, T. Gray, Claire Haggett. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Deliberative Speak at the Turbine Face: Community Engagement, Wind Farms, and Renewable Energy Transitions, in Australia (2008, background): “Such grievances highlight the ‘democratic deficit’ in such processes, as is also well recognized in Europe (e.g., Bell et al., 2005).”
The Politics of Landscape Value: A Case Study of Wind Farm Conflict in Rural Catalonia (2009, background): “The wind energy literature abounds with suggestions to consider more participatory planning processes in order to avoid conflict (eg Bell et al, 2005; Khan, 2003; Lambert and Elix, 2005; Strachan and Lal, 2004).”
NIMBY or not? Exploring the relevance of location and the politics of voiced opinions in renewable energy siting controversies (2007, methodology): “More explanatory studies include Bell et al. (2005), who developed three possible explanations (including one explaining ‘NIMBY’) for the ‘social gap’ between the high level of public support for wind found in opinion surveys and the frequent occurrence of local opposition when a specific project is”
Wind power implementation: The nature of public attitudes: Equity and fairness instead of ‘backyard motives’ (2007, background): “Furthermore, even at the level of the general implementation of wind power—to be distinguished from the attitude towards one particular wind power scheme [25]—the visual/landscape factor, that basically represents location characteristics and the identity of the place, is already dominant.”
Planning of renewables schemes: Deliberative and fair decision-making on landscape issues instead of reproachful accusations of non-cooperation (2007, background): “First, we must distinguish the attitude towards one particular wind power scheme from general attitudes towards wind power (Bell et al., 2005).”
Understanding 'local' opposition to wind development in the UK: How big is a backyard? (2010, background): “…it is the NIMBY explanation that has proved popular as a catchall description of the local opposition encountered during the planning process for wind (and other) developments (e.g. Burningham et al., 2006; Wolsink, 2007) and why more wind power capacity is not commissioned (see Bell et al., 2005).”
Acceptance, acceptability and environmental justice: the role of community benefits in wind energy development (2011, background): “This connection between the substance of community benefits and the allocation of decision rights is recognised by Bell et al. (2005): The benefits of community ownership may have as much to do with local involvement in the development process as they do with the potential profits of ownership . . .”
The predominance of economic development in the support for large-scale wind farms in the U.S. Great Plains (2012, background): “A sizable literature has developed on the topic, with studies examining attitudes toward wind energy now coming from many areas of the world including Australia [20], Greece [21–24], the Netherlands [25], Scotland [7,26–28], Sweden [13,29,30], the United Kingdom [31–33], and the United States [9,17,”