Wind Power and Public Engagement: Co-operatives and Community Ownership

ISBN-13: 9780367503048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str.

Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini

Opis

By investiagting the role of communitiy co-operatives, this books offers a new viewpoint from which to assess and understand social accpetability of wind energy, and highlights new opportunities for raising consensus in communities towards locally proposed wind farms.

Spis treści

1. Citizens and Renewable Energy  2. Wind Energy Acceptability, What, How and When  3. Testing the Theory  4. The First Community-Owned Co-Operative in the UK  5. A Survey of Four Scottish Proposed Wind Farms  6. A Theory of Social Acceptability of Wind Warms

O autorze

Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, and a Research Affiliate in the Research Area in Public Ethics at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. He holds a PhD from the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.