1st Edition
Wind Power and Public Engagement Co-operatives and Community Ownership
By Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini
Copyright 2020
250 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Adopting an interdisciplinary social science approach, this book examines community reactions to wind farms to form a new understanding of what facilitates social acceptance.
Based on empirical research, Wind Power and Public Engagement investigates opposition to wind energy and considers the advantages as well as the limits of the co-operative model of wind farm community ownership. Giuseppe... Read more
Foreword
By Christian A. Klöckner
Introduction
- Citizens and Renewable Energy: Determinants of Civic Engagement
- Wind Energy Acceptability, What, How and When: All the Variables at Stake
- Testing the Theory: Methods and Data Collection
- The First Community-Owned Co-Operative in the UK: Lessons from Westmill Wind Farm
- A Survey of Four Scottish Proposed Wind Farms
- A Theory of Social Acceptability of Wind Warms: Finding a Place for the Co-operative Scheme
Conclusions
Biography
Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, and a Research Affiliate in the Research Area in Public Ethics at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. He holds a PhD from the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.
