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Research Article
Tensions between Scottish National Policies for onshore wind energy and local dissatisfaction – insights from regulation theory
Article first published online: 27 SEP 2007
DOI: 10.1002/eet.461
Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment
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European Environment
Special Issue: Managing wind power deployment in Europe: the political and regulatory environment; Edited by Richard Cowell, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, and Peter A. Strachan, Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.
Volume 17, Issue 5, pages 307–320, September/October 2007
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How to Cite
Parkhill, K. (2007), Tensions between Scottish National Policies for onshore wind energy and local dissatisfaction – insights from regulation theory. Eur. Env., 17: 307–320. doi: 10.1002/eet.461
Publication History
- Issue published online: 27 SEP 2007
- Article first published online: 27 SEP 2007
- Manuscript Accepted: 17 JUL 2007
- Manuscript Revised: 3 JUL 2007
- Manuscript Received: 30 OCT 2006
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Keywords:
- social regulation;
- regulationist;
- rurality;
- co-constructions;
- wind
Abstract
Although best described as a ‘meta’ theory addressing the endurance of capitalism, regulation theory can successfully be used to explore not only the economic dimensions, but also the political, socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of particular developmental strategies. Thus, it offers a framework for embedding abstract debates about social attitudes to new technologies within debates about ‘real regulation’ – the economic, social and cultural relationships operating through particular places. This paper uses regulation theory and qualitative, interview-based data to analyse Scotland's drive for onshore wind energy. This approach teases out how responses to wind farms are bound up with wider debates about how rural spaces are, and should be, regulated; the tensions within and between national political objectives, local political objectives and local communities' dissatisfaction; and the connections between local actors and more formal dimensions of renewable energy policy. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.