Spoiled darkness? Sense of place and annoyance over obstruction lights from the world’s largest wind turbine test centre in Denmark
| Autor: | David Philipp Rudolph, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Ivar Lyhne, Niels-Erik Clausen, Lone Kørnøv |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Engineering
Aviation 020209 energy 0507 social and economic geography Sense of place Energy Engineering and Power Technology Annoyance 02 engineering and technology Turbine SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being SDG 13 - Climate Action 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Marketing Wind power Test site Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry 05 social sciences Environmental engineering Test (assessment) Fuel Technology Nuclear Energy and Engineering Rural area business 050703 geography Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Rudolph, D, Kirkegaard, J, Lyhne, I, Clausen, N-E & Kørnøv, L 2017, ' Spoiled Darkness? Sense of Place and Annoyance over Obstruction Lights from the World's Largest Wind Turbine Test Centre in Denmark ', Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 25, pp. 80-90 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.12.024 |
| ISSN: | 2214-6296 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.erss.2016.12.024 |
| Popis: | The relation between wind power development and local communities has received considerable attention in literature and practice. Relatively few studies, however, have provided evidence about how local citizens perceive enduring environmental impacts such as aviation obstruction lights installed on wind turbines or on wind farm light masts. Evidence regarding people’s perceived annoyance over obstruction lights is of increasing importance as wind turbines become taller, thus potentially affecting more people in the future. The paper conducts individual web-based surveys and interviews with local residents around the world’s largest onshore test site for tall wind turbines in Denmark – the national test site in the rural area of Osterild. The aim is to explore the nature and extent of perceived annoyance over aviation obstruction lights from the test site and the efficiency of different coping strategies. In particular, the discussion focuses on the perceived annoyance in relation to the perceived changes in sense of place, hereunder the loss of the area’s unique night darkness. We argue that perceived annoyance can only be mitigated through coping strategies to a limited extent, as a) perceived effects on sense of place are distinctive in shaping annoyance, and b) an internalisation of planning-related inequities persists. |
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