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A Blot on the Landscape: Consensus and Controversies on Wind Farms in Rural Portugal
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In recent years, Portugal has witnessed the siting of 250 wind farms, particularly
in mountainous and rural areas. Even though, unlike other European
countries, general public consensus seemed at first to prevail, protests by
local population and ENGOs have been increasing of late (many broadcast
by the media) the outcomes of Environmental Impact Assessments
(EIAs) provide a good example. This chapter has two main objectives. On
one hand, it examines how rural landscapes are discursively framed in the
press when the Portuguese media picks up wind energy issues. On the other
hand, by analysing EIA reports, it aims at identifying the social actors
involved in the decision process of the siting of wind farms in rural or periurban
areas, the arguments for and against the location of these facilities
and how the (rural) landscape is framed and represented. The empirical
material is drawn on three different sources: media analysis of the public discourse
on landscape issues related to wind farms; an analysis of EIA reports
regarding wind farms in Portugal and an analysis of official positions on this
issue assessed through the Environmental Impact Declarations (EID) of EIA processes. It is concluded that despite the lack of media attention to landscape
impacts’ of wind farms, the existing discursive frames are often attached to
dichotomized cultural meanings: it either deems wind farms as technological
tools for landscape progressive transformation or as a risk to its pristine
image. As to the EIA reports, landscape matters are more visible and important
and at times sufficient to reject approval or change of the siting of a wind
farm.
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Wind farms Rural areas Renewable energy
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Citação
Ana Delicado, Mónica Truninger, Elisabete Figueiredo, Luís Silva, Ana Horta (2017). A Blot on the Landscape: Consensus and Controversies on Wind Farms in Rural Portugal. In Mara Miele, Vaughan Higgins, Hilde Bjørkhaug, Monica Truninger (Eds), Transforming the Rural: Global Processes and Local Futures (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 24), pp. 179-195 . Published online: 03 Jul 2017; 179-195. Emerald
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Emerald