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As global production of energy from renewable sources has grown over the last 25 years, so too has research on social acceptance of renewable energy. This article reports findings from a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles related to this subject. There has been a rapid increase in the frequency of these studies and a shift in orientation away from market and socio-political measures of securing policy support for renewables toward a sympathetic reporting of community opposition to wind turbines. Well-developed conceptual and empirical critiques of the "Not-in-My-Backyard" concept have emerged on the basis of Western European case studies, notably from the UK. Drawing from experiences across the globe with varied sizes and types of new energy infrastructure researchers have documented complex social responses that go beyond simplistic designations of opponent or supporter. Geographical concepts including place, landscape, distance decay, territory, and others have been gainfully employed in this interdisciplinary literature, and there is ample opportunity for greater contributions from the discipline to this area of growing popular and academic interest.

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The authors have many people to thank for their contributions to this paper. In particular, thanks are owed to participants at the Canadian Network for Energy Policy Research and Analysis stakeholder workshop held in Calgary in January 2015, and Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting for their excellent facilitation of the workshop. We also wish to thank participants at the Canadian Network for Energy Policy Research and Analysis' Conference on Public Acceptance of Energy Projects held in Ottawa in September 2015 for their comments and discussion of the paper. We especially thank Blaine Favel, Marie-José Fortin, Rowland Harrison, Ian Lee and Herb Emery for reading and commenting on a draft version of the paper. Thanks are owed to Frankie Lau for his excellent logistical support during both the workshop and the conference, and to Kinga Starzyk-Dramowicz for her logistical support during the team's initial working meeting. We wish to thank Jordan Carlson and Sophie Lorefice for excellent research assistance. Last but not least, the author team would like to acknowledge Dylan Morgan's efforts in coordinating the monthly conference calls and compiling the various components of the paper into a single document.

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