Wind Farms in Rural Areas: How Far Do Community Benefits from Wind Farms Represent a Local Economic Development Opportunity?.

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Renewable energy for sustainable rural development: Synergies and mismatches (2020, background): “what extent locally sourced labor contributes to long-term RD (Moreno and Lopez, 2008; Ejdemo and S€ oderholm, 2015; Munday et al., 2011; Callaghan and Williams, 2014).”
Understanding community benefit payments from renewable energy development (2017, background): “Community ownership, or at least co-ownership, of infrastructure has been shown to improve acceptance of renewable developments in numerous countries, including Scotland (Warren and McFadyen, 2010) and Germany (Musall and Kuik, 2011).”
Gone with the wind: Valuing the visual impacts of wind turbines through house prices (2015, background): “Interesting qualitative and descriptive quantitative evidence on the community and local economic development benefits of wind farms in Wales is provided by Munday et al (2011).”
Acceptance, acceptability and environmental justice: the role of community benefits in wind energy development (2011, background): “This mode of development delivers only modest conventional economic benefits (jobs, income) to the rural areas where wind farms are developed (Munday et al. 2010).”