Residents' attitudes to proposed wind farms in the West Coast region of South Africa: A social perspective from the South

Improving Social Acceptance of Waste-to-Energy Incinerators in China: Role of Place Attachment, Trust, and Fairness

“…An impressive body of literature indicates that place-related constructs exhibit different effects and even a lack of significant effects in predicting the acceptance of energy projects. For the most controversial types of facility (such as nuclear power stations, coal mines, and powerlines), place attachment is found to be negatively related to social acceptance (e.g., Devine-Wright [13], Venables et al [14]); while in the relatively rare studies focused on alternative energy sources such as wind farms (e.g., the South Africa study of Lombard et al [35]) or tidal energy facilities (e.g., the Northern Ireland study of Devine-Wright [19,34]), the effect appears to be positive, and is likely to be amplified by intensive community consultation and participation. Notably, no effect has been found for solar energy development [83].…”

“…In contrast, however, a tidal energy project was found to have strong community support arising from beliefs that it would enhance local distinctiveness by "putting the area on the map worldwide" [34]. Unlike wind farm projects, which can be perceived positively and negatively, incinerator projects are generally considered as threats to the landscape [11,35]. The impacts of local energy development on the landscape have been viewed as central to community opposition [36,37]; for instance, an incinerator chimney is typically regarded as a visual perturbation to local landscapes.…”

Wind energy in the city: An interurban comparison of social acceptance of wind energy projects

“…Most notably, close proximity to the proposed development can strongly influence local acceptance, occasionally leading to overt opposition [13,34,35]. This effect, termed "NIMBY" (i.e., not-inmy-backyard), has been employed to explain a potential source of resistance to proposed projects; that is, individuals are presumed to reject a development that is proximal to them, but not one which is proximal to someone else.…”

“…Social acceptance of wind energy, however, is understudied outside of Europe, North America, and Australia. Given recognition of the need to evaluate acceptance of alternative energy sources in previously understudied countries, recent studies have extended their scope to include countries within Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America (e.g., [35]). Despite these extensions, a gap in the literature still remains with respect to a more inclusive analysis of interurban differences in terms of social acceptance of wind energy that includes residents of countries outside of the OECD.…”

Method Sequence and Dominance in Mixed Methods Research: A Case Study of the Social Acceptance of Wind Energy Literature

“…There was also varying degrees of method dominance throughout the sample. For example, some papers (Brownlee et al, 2015;Lombard & Ferreira, 2014;Maruyama, Nishikido, & Iida, 2007) were heavily quantitative dominant, as shown by among other things, having only quantitative data within their results sections. Conversely, all papers that emphasized qualitative findings did so at a relatively less dramatic imbalancewith only three papers found to have more than 70% qualitative data (i.e., results section a word count) compared to 10 for quantitative dominant studies in the group.…”