Evaluating the impact of wind turbine noise on health-related quality of life

Shepherd, Daniel; McBride, David; Welch, David; Dirks, Kim N.; Hill, Erin M.

doi:10.4103/1463-1741.85502

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“…This renders them more spatially dispersed and, therefore, in greater proximity to consumers than conventional power plants, increasing the salience of energy supply (Pasqualetti, 2000;Wüstenhagen et al, 2007). In fact, for residents who live close to them, wind turbines have been found to have unpleasant noise emissions (see, for example, Knopper and Ollson (2011) or Shepherd et al (2011)) and, most importantly, negative impacts on landscape aesthetics (see, for example, Devine-Wright (2005), Jobert et al (2007), or Wolsink (2007)). Moreover, they have been shown to have negative impacts on biodiversity (see, for example, Lehnert et al (2014)).…”

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Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

Krekel

Zerrahn

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractWe investigate the effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential wellbeing in Germany, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a unique novel panel data set on more than 20,000 wind turbines for the time period between 2000 and 2012. Using a Geographical Information System (GIS), we calculate the proximity between households and the nearest wind turbine as the most important determinant of their disamenities, e.g. visual interference into landscape aesthetics.Our unique novel panel data set on wind turbines, which was collected at the regional level, includes their exact geographical coordinates and construction dates. This allows estimating the causal effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential wellbeing, using a difference-in-differences design. To ensure comparability of the treatment and control group, we apply propensity-score and novel spatial matching techniques based on exogenous weather data and geographical locations of residence, respectively.We show that the construction of a wind turbine within a treatment radius of 4,000 m...

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Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

Krekel

Zerrahn

2015

SSRN Journal

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“…1 Some people assert that the infrasound generated by the wind turbines has a negative effect on the health of nearby residents, to the point where it is claimed that some have abandoned their homes in order to get away from what they believe to be the cause of their ill health, although this is disputed. 2 The two main hypotheses in this study are a) that infrasound has a direct physiological effect or b) the effect is psychogenic in nature otherwise known as a nocebo effect.…”

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The effect of infrasound and negative expectations to adverse pathological symptoms from wind farms

Tonin¹,

Brett

Colagiuri

2016

Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control

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An investigation was conducted on the effect of reported pathological symptoms of simulated infrasound produced by wind turbines. There is ongoing debate in the scientific community concerning the cause of the negative health effects reported by people living near wind farms, whether those effects are caused by the infrasound itself, or alternatively by a psychogenic response (such as a nocebo effect) to a presumption that the infrasound is the cause. In this study, a simulated wind turbine infrasound pressure waveform was generated using a custom-built headphone apparatus. Volunteers were influenced into states of high expectancy of negative effects from infrasound, and low expectancy of negative effects and their reactions to either infrasound or a sham noise were recorded. It was found, at least for the short-term exposure times conducted here-in, that the simulated infrasound has no statistically significant effect on the symptoms reported by volunteers, but the prior concern volunteers had about the effect of infrasound has a statistically significant influence on the symptoms reported. This supports the nocebo effect hypothesis.

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“…Some commentators suggest negative attitudes toward IWTs may contribute to reported annoyance [102]. However, researchers have found that IWTs were initially welcomed into the communities for their perceived environmental [35] or economic [37] benefits. Krogh (2011) wrote.…”

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Human Health, Rights and Wind Turbine Deployment in Canada

Krogh¹,

Horner²

2017

JSS

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Canada has ratified international conventions which recognize the individual's right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health. Despite the adoption of these covenants governments sometimes support policies and practises which trade off individual human health with other conflicting interests. This review evaluates the individual's right to health against government policies and practices which support wind energy deployment in Canada. Our analysis presents government documents, peer reviewed literature, and other references which support the conclusion that wind energy deployment in Canada can be expected to result in avoidable harm to human health. This harm conflicts with contemporary health and social justice principles. Governments have a responsibility to help Canadians maintain and improve their health by generating effective responses for the prevention of avoidable harm. Individuals have a right to make informed decisions about their health. Knowledge gaps and potential risks to health should be fully disclosed. Individuals should not be exposed to industrial wind turbines without their informed consent.

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Evaluating the impact of wind turbine noise on health-related quality of life

Cited by 126 publications

References 15 publications

Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

The effect of infrasound and negative expectations to adverse pathological symptoms from wind farms

Human Health, Rights and Wind Turbine Deployment in Canada

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