Wind Power and Public Engagement

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.

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.

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