Power production and environmental opinions – Environmentally motivated resistance to wind power in Sweden

Jonas Anshelm and Haikola Simon

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, vol. 57, issue C, 1545-1555

Abstract: Historically, every form of large scale power production in Sweden has given rise to organised, sustained and partly successful resistance motivated by environmental arguments. Since wind power is identified by the Swedish Parliament as an important energy source for the future and the wind power industry is expected to expand on a large scale, there is reason to believe that the already existing environmental opposition to wind power will continue to grow and will attempt to limit or at least partly obstruct the wind power expansion. In order to facilitate an understanding of this opposition and its possibility to significantly influence future wind power expansion in Sweden, this paper draws upon previous research on the opposition towards hydropower, nuclear power and biomass in Sweden, and discusses these findings in relation to previous research on wind power opposition.

Keywords: Environmental protest; Wind power in Sweden; Environmental opinion formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.211

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