 Place-making and trust-building: The influence of policy on host community responses to wind farmsStewart Fast and Warren Mabee Energy Policy, 2015, vol. 81, issue C, 27-37 Abstract: This article assesses the impact of wind energy policy choices on host community responses. Two key explanations (place-making and trust-building) for host community responses are identified from the substantial social science literature investigating local community reaction to wind farms. The relationship between these two key factors and policy choices is explored through a comparative case study of five wind farms during a time of major policy change in Ontario, Canada. These five wind projects are all located within a 50km of each other but are built under different policy regimes, with different ownership arrangements and are of different sizes. They provide a basis to assess the impact of three specific policy elements – approval authority, community benefit arrangements and spatial restrictions of turbine placement – on the place-making and trust-building potential of wind projects in the host communities. We identify a wide range of interactions and conclude that the policy choice to elevate project approval to a central authority has had the most damaging effect. Keywords: Wind energy; Host communities; Planning; Place; Trust; Ontario (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:81:y:2015:i:c:p:27-37 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.02.008 Access Statistics for this article Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier |
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