Impacts, procedural processes, and local context: Rethinking the social acceptance of wind energy projects in the Netherlands

A lack of social acceptance obstructs the diffusion of wind energy and jeopardises the fight against global warming and climate change. Academic literature has identified the leading causes of social acceptance, but falls short in providing workable methodologies to consider this in the planning and decision-making process. This paper attends to this issue by providing a novel holistic conceptualisation of community acceptance as an interplay between project impacts, the procedural process, and local context. This conceptualisation can help project developers, decision-makers and researchers t... Mehr ...