Wind Power and Power Politics (eBook, ePUB)

International Perspectives
Redaktion: Strachan, Peter; Toke, David; Lal, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind power deployment programmes. A central theme is the relationship between patterns of ownership and the outcomes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135898953
• Artikelnr.: 47892392

Autorenporträt

Peter A. Strachan is a Professor in Corporate Environmental Management at the Aberdeen Business School, Scotland. He has published one book, many articles in top academic journals, and is the joint founding editor of the journal Progress in Industrial Ecology: An International Journal. David Toke is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the University of Birmingham. He has had four books, over thirty journal articles and many chapters, reports and journalistic articles published on environmental, especially energy-related, issues. His work is widely cited and influential in both academic and public policy circles. David Lal is Dean and Professor at the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaty (Kazakhstan), and is currently on secondment from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. He has published several book chapters and a series of articles in top academic journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Assessing National Patterns of Wind Ownership Peter A. Strachan, David
Toke & David Lal 2. Wind Power Outcomes: Myths and Reality David Toke 3.
Local Social Acceptance Through Local Involvement: The Case of Wind Power
Implementation North Rhine-Westphalia Sylvia Breukers 4. The Wind Power
Market in the Netherlands: Assessing the Performance of Wind Cooperatives
Susanne Agterbosch 5. Corporate Interests and Spanish Wind Power Deployment
Valentina Dinica 6. Wind Energy Policy Development in Ireland: A Critical
Analysis Brian P. Ó Gallachóir, Morgan Bazilian & Eamon J. McKeogh 7.
Assessing the Performance of the UK Renewable Obligation: Cinderella or an
Ugly Sister? Afolabi Otitoju, Peter Strachan & David Toke 8. Gone With the
Wind? Prospects of Community Owned Wind Energy in the United States Dennis
Tänzler 9. The Development of Wind Power in the Netherlands and Denmark:
The Impact of Different Innovation Strategies and Policies Linda M. Kamp