Low-carbon but corrupt? Bribery, inappropriateness and unfairness concerns in Danish energy policy
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Low-carbon but corrupt? Bribery, inappropriateness and unfairness concerns in Danish energy policy. / Jørgensen, Marie Leer.
In: Energy Research & Social Science, Vol. 70, 101663, 2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Low-carbon but corrupt?
T2 - Bribery, inappropriateness and unfairness concerns in Danish energy policy
AU - Jørgensen, Marie Leer
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article explores the role of a Danish community benefit scheme in promoting local acceptance of wind energy projects and discusses the role of regulation. The paper presents findings, obtained from qualitative focus groups and interviews with local citizens in three wind energy projects. The analysis shows that the local citizens were ambivalent about the scheme. The community projects generally were perceived positively, but a number of critical reactions to the scheme were also identified. The categories into which local concerns fell were: bribery, legitimacy and administration of the schemes. A key finding was that some local citizens dismissed the scheme as inappropriate to address and redress the adverse impacts related to the wind project. Overall, the many challenges identified indicate that the Danish scheme failed to boost local acceptance. It was also evident from the Danish experience that a regulatory framework does not in itself address key concerns such as bribery as has been suggested in the literature on non-regulatory developer-led schemes in the UK. The findings raise questions about the effectiveness of community benefits as compensation tools aiming to promote local acceptance. A future role of such schemes in fair and equitable benefit-sharing is discussed.
AB - This article explores the role of a Danish community benefit scheme in promoting local acceptance of wind energy projects and discusses the role of regulation. The paper presents findings, obtained from qualitative focus groups and interviews with local citizens in three wind energy projects. The analysis shows that the local citizens were ambivalent about the scheme. The community projects generally were perceived positively, but a number of critical reactions to the scheme were also identified. The categories into which local concerns fell were: bribery, legitimacy and administration of the schemes. A key finding was that some local citizens dismissed the scheme as inappropriate to address and redress the adverse impacts related to the wind project. Overall, the many challenges identified indicate that the Danish scheme failed to boost local acceptance. It was also evident from the Danish experience that a regulatory framework does not in itself address key concerns such as bribery as has been suggested in the literature on non-regulatory developer-led schemes in the UK. The findings raise questions about the effectiveness of community benefits as compensation tools aiming to promote local acceptance. A future role of such schemes in fair and equitable benefit-sharing is discussed.
KW - Community benefits
KW - Compensation
KW - Local acceptance
KW - Wind energy
KW - Fairness
KW - Benefit-sharing
KW - COMMUNITY BENEFITS
KW - SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE
KW - WIND FARMS
KW - ACCEPTABILITY
KW - COMPENSATION
KW - PERCEPTIONS
U2 - 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101663
DO - 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101663
M3 - Journal article
VL - 70
JO - Energy Research & Social Science
JF - Energy Research & Social Science
SN - 2214-6296
M1 - 101663
ER -
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