Learning from Wind Power
Learning from Wind Power
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向风电学习
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10.1057/9781137265272_4
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2012
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For many commentators, a key lesson from 20 years of promoting on-shore wind energy is that ‘the planning system’is an impediment to expansion of the sector. This claim has been voiced in a number of European countries (Bruns et al. 2011; Khan 2003; Wolsink 1996) but has become something of a mantra in the UK, where the conflict surrounding planning processes has attracted complaints from industry and government (Cowell 2007).For all its stridency, this discourse of ‘planning barriers to delivery’is simplistic in its analysis of deployment problems (see Toke 2005a) but also somewhat paradoxical, or at least incomplete, in its view of planning. It is paradoxical because important social concerns about wind power–including impacts on landscape, visual amenity, wildlife and noise–vary across space. This suggests that some form of planning, to steer development away from sensitive locations and towards more acceptable sites, ought to reduce conflict and lead to more positive consent decisions. Indeed, it is precisely for these kinds of reasons that numerous commentators have called for better locational guidance, including Kenworthy, quoted above (see also Hindmarsh 2010; IEEP 2009; Warren and Birnie 2009). Spatial planning approaches may offer a preferable strategy to market-fuelled ‘wind rushes’, where developers dash to exploit the most commercially attractive locations, leading to