The good process or the great illusion? A spatial perspective on public participation in Danish municipal wind turbine planning. Clausen, L., Rudolph, D., & Nyborg, S. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 23(6):732–751, 2021. ![The good process or the great illusion? A spatial perspective on public participation in Danish municipal wind turbine planning [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper explores limitations and potentials of the public space for participation in Danish municipal wind energy planning. Although the Danish procedure for involving citizens in wind energy developments is often praised for its participatory merits, the approach is not without problems. Based on explorative case study research of three Danish wind energy projects at the planning stage, and qualitative interviews with both citizens and planners, the paper reveals shortcomings in terms of perceived procedural fairness and the powerful role ascribed to developers in a planning process. A general conclusion is that the implementation of limited participation requirements of the inherent invited space decouples citizens’ perspectives while providing a space for economic and strategic interests that is closed in its character. However, the study also localizes public input which is not limited to formal participation mechanisms. Self-initiated participation representing a ‘claimed’, ‘uninvited’ and ‘self-organized’ space exerts pressure from the outside and may carry important answers to future energy challenges. The paper suggests that a successful nurturing of such potentials could help to reconfigure a public space that encourages collective reflection between established and oppositional understandings of wind energy and society. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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title = {The good process or the great illusion? {A} spatial perspective on public participation in {Danish} municipal wind turbine planning},
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abstract = {This paper explores limitations and potentials of the public space for participation in Danish municipal wind energy planning. Although the Danish procedure for involving citizens in wind energy developments is often praised for its participatory merits, the approach is not without problems. Based on explorative case study research of three Danish wind energy projects at the planning stage, and qualitative interviews with both citizens and planners, the paper reveals shortcomings in terms of perceived procedural fairness and the powerful role ascribed to developers in a planning process. A general conclusion is that the implementation of limited participation requirements of the inherent invited space decouples citizens’ perspectives while providing a space for economic and strategic interests that is closed in its character. However, the study also localizes public input which is not limited to formal participation mechanisms. Self-initiated participation representing a ‘claimed’, ‘uninvited’ and ‘self-organized’ space exerts pressure from the outside and may carry important answers to future energy challenges. The paper suggests that a successful nurturing of such potentials could help to reconfigure a public space that encourages collective reflection between established and oppositional understandings of wind energy and society. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor \& Francis Group.},
number = {6},
journal = {Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning},
author = {Clausen, L.T. and Rudolph, D. and Nyborg, S.},
year = {2021},
pages = {732--751},
}
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