Planning of renewables schemes: Deliberative and fair decision-making on landscape issues instead of reproachful accusations of non-cooperation

Energy Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2692-2704

  Wolsink, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fairness; Landscape; Renewables implementation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

LANDSCAPE; RENEWABLE IMPLEMENTATION; RENEWABLE POWER PLANTS; WIND FARMS;

ENERGY POLICY;

DECISION MAKING; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL PLANNING;

EID: 33847750206     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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