Saving The Planet But Losing The Landscape: The Impact of Renewable Energy Policies on Rural Britain

Peter Prag ()
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Peter Prag: Department of Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading School of Business

Real Estate & Planning Working Papers from Henley Business School, University of Reading

Abstract: The main instrument of the Government's renewable energy policy is to promote wind power through regulation and subsidy. This gives rise to anomalies in rural planning when turbines are erected in sensitve areas in which other forms of development are strictly controlled. The situation is reviewed in the context of economic viability and considered also against the alternative of growing fuel crops. The latter are currently hampered by lack of Government support but could fulfil a useful secondary role of sustaining the agricultural sector and with it the management of lowland landscapes.

Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2003
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