Learning from Wind Power

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Wind Power: Towards a Sustainable Energy Future?

   1. Wind Power: Towards a Sustainable Energy Future?

      • Charles Warren, Richard Cowell, Geraint Ellis, Peter A. Strachan, Joseph Szarka

      Pages 1-14

3. Governance and Policy Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Wind Power: Opportunities, Limits and Challenges

      • David Elliott

      Pages 17-37

   3. Wind Power Policy in Germany and the UK: Different Choices Leading to Divergent Outcomes

      • Volkmar Lauber

      Pages 38-60

   4. Wind Power and Spatial Planning in the UK

      • Simon Power, Richard Cowell

      Pages 61-84

   5. From Laggard to World Leader: The United Kingdom’s Adoption of Marine Wind Energy

      • Stephen Jay

      Pages 85-107

   6. Planning with the Missing Masses: Innovative Wind Power Planning in France

      • Alain Nadaï

      Pages 108-129

4. Societal Engagement with Wind Power

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. The Misdirected Opposition to Wind Power

      • Martin J. Pasqualetti

      Pages 133-152

   3. The Social Experience of Noise from Wind Farms

      • Claire Haggett

      Pages 153-173

   4. Navigating a Minefield? Wind Power and Local Community Benefit Funds

      • Peter A. Strachan, David R. Jones

      Pages 174-193

   5. Fostering Public Engagement in Wind Energy Development: The Role of Intermediaries and Community Benefits

      • Patrick Devine-Wright

      Pages 194-214

   6. Social Acceptance of Wind Power Projects: Learning from Trans-National Experience

      • Stefanie Huber, Robert Horbaty, Geraint Ellis

      Pages 215-234

   7. Drawing Lessons from Wind Power for Future Sustainable Energy

      • Joseph Szarka, Geraint Ellis, Richard Cowell, Peter A. Strachan, Charles Warren

      Pages 235-253

5. Back Matter

   Pages 255-259

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Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.

• sustainable energy
• wind
• wind energy
• Environmental Geography

'What the book does well is to identify and disucss several barriers to making wind projects more acceptable for communities and environmental groups...Learning from Wind Power is an accessible and weighty contribution to the field.' - Ralitsa Hiteva, Sustainable Consumption Institute and School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Environment and Planning

• Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, UK

  Joseph Szarka

• School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK

  Richard Cowell

• School of Planning Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

  Geraint Ellis

• Aberdeen Business School, Strategy and Policy Group, Robert Gordon University, UK

  Peter A. Strachan

• Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, UK

  Charles Warren

PATRICK DEVINE-WRIGHT holds a chair in Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK DAVID ELLIOTT Emeritus Professor in Technology Policy at the Open University, UK CLAIRE HAGGETT Lecturer in the Sociology of Sustainability at the University of Edinburgh, UK ROBERT HOBARTY Energy and sustainable development expert STEFANIE HUBER holds a master degree in Environmental Sciences and a certificate in teaching on environmental issues STEPHEN JAY Lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool, UK DAVID JONES Lecturer in Business Strategy and the Environment, Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University, UK VOLKMAR LAUBER Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Salzburg, Austria ALAIN NADAI Socio-economist and research director at CIRED, France MARTIN J. PASQUALETTI Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, USA SIMON POWER Associate Director at Arup, UK

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