Qualified, absolute, idealistic, impatient: dimensions of host community responses to wind energy projects

Fast, Stewart

doi:10.1177/0308518x15595887

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“…While some residents wanted no wind farms at all, others stipulated disparate conditions under which wind farms could be tolerated. These differing degrees of objection, which are captured in Fast's (2015) categorization of 'absolute' (unconditional) and 'qualified' (conditional) opposition respectively, are also reflected in the contingent and incommensurable totality that the empty signifier in our case symbolizes. That is, while different residents constructed differing interests and priorities, the 'absolute' position expressed in the nodal point served tendentially as the glue that could hold together the emerging coalition.…”

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The politics of Estonia’s offshore wind energy programme: Discourse, power and marine spatial planning

Tafon

Howarth

Griggs

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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There is growing recognition that marine spatial planning is an inherently political process marked by a clash of discourses, power and conflicts of interest. Yet, there are very few attempts to make sense of and explain the political practices of marine spatial planning protests in different contexts, especially the way that planners and developers create the conditions for the articulation of objections, and then develop new strategies to negotiate and mediate community resistance. Using poststructuralist discourse theory, the article analyses the politics of a proposed offshore wind energy project in Estonia within the context of the country's marine spatial planning processes. First, through the lens of politicization, it explores the strategies of political mobilization and the rival discourses of expertise and sustainability through which residents and municipal actors have contested the offshore wind energy project. Secondly, through the lens of depoliticization, it explains the discursive and legalistic strategies employed by developers, planners and an Administrative Court to displace -spatially and temporally -the core issues of contestation, thus legitimizing the offshore wind energy plan. We argue that the spaces created by the preplanning conjuncture offered the most conducive conditions for residents to voice concerns about the proposed project in a dialogical fashion, whereas the marine spatial planning and post-planning phases became mired in a therapeutic-style consultation, set alongside rigid and

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Section: Articulating Disparate Demands Around a Contingent Nodal Pointmentioning

confidence: 90%

The politics of Estonia’s offshore wind energy programme: Discourse, power and marine spatial planning

Tafon

Howarth

Griggs

2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Neste sentido, o pagamento de royalties, os arrendamentos e os aluguéis auxiliam na aceitação da implantação dos parques eólicos, principalmente dos residentes de áreas economicamente desfavorecidas (HORST, 2007;TOKE et al, 2008;DEVINE-WRIGHT;HOWES, 2010). Por outro lado, em Ontário, no Canadá, o processo de implantação tecnocrática denominado "decidir-anunciar-defender" (BAXTER et al, 2013, p. 942) ajudou a produzir conflitos nas comunidades que hospedam parques eólicos (WALKER et al, 2014;SHAW et al, 2015;FAST, 2015;FAST et al, 2016).…”

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Licenciamento Ambiental E Oposição Social À Energia Eólica: Estudo De Caso Com Foco No Social Gap Em Comunidade Litorânea Do Ceará, Brasil

Gorayeb

Brannstrom

2020

Rev. Geogr. (Recife, Online)

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O artigo apresenta estudo sobre a implantação de um parque eólico no litoral oeste do Ceará, com foco na análise de como o processo de licenciamento resultou na invisibilização de uma comunidade tradicional a 250 metros de distância dos aerogeradores. O processo tornou os moradores “ocultos” aos tomadores de decisão, no caso, o órgão estadual licenciador, que forneceu as aprovações legais necessárias para a construção do parque eólico. A oposição da comunidade ao parque eólico está enraizada nas reivindicações pela perda de parte do território tradicional e de seus recursos naturais, especialmente uma lagoa perene utilizada há gerações, para lazer e pesca, que foi suprimida durante as obras de construção do empreendimento. Os esforços de mitigação dos impactos, capitaneados pelas instituições de assistência social e jurídica, juntamente com o Ministério Público, produziram resultados contraditórios. Falhas no processo de licenciamento ambiental e as consequências dos esforços de mitigação dos impactos resultaram em desgastes e conflitos internos comunitários, em vários níveis. Este trabalho expõe os resultados empíricos da pesquisa na perspectiva de análise do conceito social gap, amplamente discutido na literatura internacional, que enfoca a discrepância entre o apoio da opinião pública nacional favorável em contraste à oposição local. A situação exposta nesta pesquisa, provavelmente, está presente em outros locais onde existem parques de energia eólica instalados, porém ainda é parcamente relatada na literatura acadêmica nacional.

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“…Sæþórsdóttir and Ólafsdóttir (2020) study wind development in a rural tourist region and find that residents who live and make a living in these places are more supportive of wind energy than tourists who treat the area as a ‘playground’. Indeed, the politics of rurality, often interpreted through this ‘productivist-consumptivist’ lens, are ignited by, and folded into, debates about RE development, as for example when ‘…disputes over wind turbines aggravate social class divisions between those that see rural areas as landscape and those that see it as a place of production’ (Fast, 2015: 859).…”

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Energy transition, rural transformation and local land-use planning: Insights from Ontario, Canada

Calvert

Smit

Wassmansdorf

et al. 2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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A transition toward decentralized and land-intensive renewable energy production systems is one among many factors re-shaping rural areas, leading to reimaginations and contestations. Especially in the Global North, the rural narrative now includes not just rural ‘production’ but also the ‘consumption’ of rural amenity and experience. Previous research into public attitudes toward renewable energy correlates the former with positive attitudes to renewable energy, and the latter with negative attitudes toward renewable energy. Territorial structures, such as official land-use plans, reflect dominant discourses and narratives that shape ongoing rural transformation. The purpose of this work is to understand the extent to which, if at all, those correlations at the individual level between landscape conceptualizations and sentiment toward renewable energy are manifest in territorial structures. In what ways are energy transitions present in rural land-use plans and planning systems? Is there a relationship between how rural landscapes are conceptualized and how energy transitions are framed and addressed, in land-use planning systems? These questions are answered through a structured content and discourse analysis of 10 land-use plans of rural municipalities in southern Ontario; an agriculturally intensive region that hosts much of Ontario’s large-scale renewable energy systems. Correlations observed between landscape conceptualizations and sentiment toward renewable energy observed are not strongly reflected in land-use plans. Land-use plans in this region are not positioned to manage the place-based opportunities and impacts associated with renewable energy development. The research reveals an opportunity for rural land-use planning systems to more explicitly incorporate energy transitions in their evolving discourses, identities and development trajectories.

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Qualified, absolute, idealistic, impatient: dimensions of host community responses to wind energy projects

Cited by 19 publications

References 37 publications

The politics of Estonia’s offshore wind energy programme: Discourse, power and marine spatial planning

The politics of Estonia’s offshore wind energy programme: Discourse, power and marine spatial planning

Licenciamento Ambiental E Oposição Social À Energia Eólica: Estudo De Caso Com Foco No Social Gap Em Comunidade Litorânea Do Ceará, Brasil

Energy transition, rural transformation and local land-use planning: Insights from Ontario, Canada

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