Wind power and power politics : international perspectives / / edited by Peter A. Strachan, David Toke & David Lal

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.9/2
• Soggetto topico: Wind power - Government policy; Energy policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LalDavid StrachanPeter A TokeDavid
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Appendices; Foreword; 1 Assessing National Patterns of Wind Ownership; 2 Wind-Power Outcomes: Myths and Reality; 3 Local Social Acceptance Through Local Involvement: The Case of Wind-Power Implementation in North Rhine-Westphalia; 4 The Wind-Power Market in the Netherlands: Assessing the Performance of Wind Cooperatives; 5 Corporate Interests and Spanish Wind-Power Deployment; 6 Wind-Energy Policy Development in Ireland: A Critical Analysis; 7 Assessing the Performance of the UK Renewables Obligation: Cinderella or an Ugly Sister? ; 8 Gone With the Wind?: Prospects of Community-Owned Wind Energy in the United States9 The Development of Wind Power in the Netherlands and Denmark: The Impact of Different Innovation Strategies and Policies; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. These flow from different social environments, but they are associated with different types of planning outcome and deployment rates. Grass roots ownership is more widespread than is commonly thought, although it is not a panacea for effective wind power programmes. Financial policies used to promote wind power also have important inf
• Titolo autorizzato: Wind power and power politics
• ISBN: 1-135-89896-0; 1-282-28375-8; 9786612283758; 0-203-88642-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454324303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; ; 9.