The Effect of Wind Power Installations on Coastal Tourism

Lilley, Meredith Blaydes; Firestone, Jeremy; Kempton, Willett

doi:10.3390/en3010001

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“…While the studies reviewed above have made substantial progress in enhancing our understanding of public responses to ORE, a number of shortcomings have also become apparent. First of all, while the unique, marine context of ORE developments has been highlighted across studies, some quantitative studies have overlooked or simplified this context by only considering distance to the coast . Studies which did acknowledge this offshore setting, like those investigating symbolic interpretations of the sea, have disagreed on what exactly to measure: attachments to coastal towns, symbolism of the sea as a whole or even at different scales covering both .…”

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Public engagement with offshore renewable energy: a critical review

Wiersma

Devine‐Wright

2014

WIREs Climate Change

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Offshore renewable energy, including offshore wind, tidal and wave energy, has sometimes been represented as opposition‐free alternatives to controversial technologies such as onshore wind turbines, and has received increasing attention from social scientists in recent years. A fragmented literature has emerged investigating public engagement with these technologies and the determinants of public acceptance, comprising 59 key studies—the majority investigating offshore wind energy (59%). This literature review argues that while the ways in which public actors engage with offshore renewable energy are to some extent similar to onshore energy infrastructure, there are also important differences. These include the generally lower levels of public knowledge about the technologies, a changing role for visual impacts, a fundamentally different, marine, spatial context, and different sets of stakeholders in different decision‐making arenas. There is a need to explore as yet unasked and unanswered questions—going beyond ‘established’ variables identified in the onshore wind‐based ‘beyond NIMBY’ literature—especially regarding the role of the marine location of these technologies, and the cross‐technology and cross‐disciplinary applicability of findings. In order to more fully understand public responses to energy infrastructures, future research needs to move beyond case studies of onshore wind developments, adopting more diverse and ambitious research designs and methodologies. This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Behavior Change and Responses

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Public engagement with offshore renewable energy: a critical review

Wiersma

Devine‐Wright

2014

WIREs Climate Change

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“…The estimated values, of course, ignore the effects on visitors to the shore, many of who are out of state visitors from New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the Washington, D.C. area (Lilley, Firestone and Kempton, 2010 there is also evidence that wind turbines may attract more tourists than they dissuade, so there may be positive amenity effects to account for as well (Lilley, Firestone, and Kempton (2010) and Krueger, Firestone, and Kempton (2009)). …”

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Valuing the Visual Disamenity of Offshore Wind Power Projects at Varying Distances from the Shore: An Application on the Delaware Shoreline

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Firestone³

2011

Land Economics

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“…In some places, the focus of attention has been the impacts of wind turbines on birds and bats (Johnson et al 2004;Saito 2004;Blum 2005;De Lucas, Janss, and Ferrer 2007;Kunz et al 2007;National Research Council 2007;Lilley and Firestone 2008;National Wind Coordinating Collaborative 2008). Other times the concern has centered on potential interference with visual aesthetics, radar operations, property values, tourist attractions, and a sense of serenity (Moller 2006;Whitcomb and Williams, 2007;Ciardi and Crum 2009;Hoen et al 2009;Lilley, Firestone, and Kempton 2010). Resistance in many communities accompanies the perception that wind projects are being imposed on them by outsiders (Hinshelwood 2001;Wolsink 2007aWolsink , 2007b.…”

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