Conflicting Environmental Visions of the Rural: Windfarm Development in Mid Wales
Conflicting Environmental Visions of the Rural: Windfarm Development in Mid Wales
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农村环境愿景的冲突：威尔士中部的风电场开发
DOI：
10.1111/1467-9523.00245
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
M. Woods
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作者：
M. Woods
在农村地区发展风力涡轮机发电站已成为一个越来越有争议的问题，冲突围绕着自然的表现以及应在保护当地环境和景观与通过减少燃料依赖来应对气候变化的更广泛关注之间取得平衡。因此，“风电场”发展的冲突提供了一个难得的洞察力，政治行为者如何谈判和合理化的自然，环境和农村之间的往往是密切的关系，在许多当代农村政策和规划战略的核心。本文探讨了这些主题，通过审查的辩论，围绕建议建立欧洲最大的“风力发电场”在威尔士的Cefn Croes。通过解构双方在冲突中使用的修辞，本文展示了“自然”是如何以不同的方式构建的，以允许两个游说团体声称环境高地，如何奠定话语与技术话语形成对比，以及景观如何与不断变化的农村经济联系在一起。
The development of wind turbine power stations in rural locations has become an increasingly controversial issue with conflict revolving around representations of nature and the balance that should be struck between the preservation of a local environment and landscape, and the wider concern of tacking climate change through reducing fuel dependency. As such, conflicts over ‘windfarm’ development provide a rare insight into how political actors negotiate and rationalise the often closed relationship between nature, environment and rurality that lies at the core of much contemporary rural policy and planning strategy. This paper explores these themes through examination of the debate that surrounded proposals to build Europe's largest ‘windfarm’ at Cefn Croes in Wales. By deconstructing the rhetoric employed by both sides in the conflict, the paper demonstrates how ‘nature’ is constructed in different ways to allow both lobbies to claim the environmental high ground, how lay discourses are contrasted with technical discourses, and how landscape is connected to the changing rural economy.