TY - JOUR
TI - Wind farm externalities and public preferences for community consultation in Ireland: A discrete choice experiments approach
AU - Brennan, N
AU - Van Rensburg, T
T2 - Energy Policy
AB - In Ireland the deployment of onshore wind turbines has become progressively more difficult in some areas because of the potential negative externalities associated with their operation. Using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) we employ a willingness to accept framework to estimate the external effects of wind turbines on local residents with the inclusion of community consultation and to quantify the compensation required to permit wind farms to be built in Ireland. Our findings reveal that the majority of respondents are willing to make (monetary) tradeoffs to allow for wind power initiatives and we find that respondents require less compensation if provision is made for a community representative and setback distance is increased.
DA - 2016/07//
PY - 2016
VL - 94
SP - 355
EP - 365
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421516302002
DO - 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.04.031
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Land-Based Wind
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Social & Economic Data
ER -