Competing Wind Energy Discourses, Contested Landscapes

Abstract: The impairment of landscapes is a concern constantly raised against wind energy developments in Germany as in other countries. Often, landscapes or landscape types are treated in the literature as essentialist or at least as uncontested categories. We analyse two examples of local controversies about wind energy, in which “landscape” is employed by supporters and opponents alike, from a poststructuralist and discourse theoretical angle. The aim is to identify and compare landscape constructs produced in the micro discourses of wind energy objectors and proponents at local level (a) within each case, (b) between the two cases and (c) with landscape constructs that were previously found in macro discourses. One major finding is that several different landscapes can exist at one and the same place. Furthermore there seems to be a relatively stable set of competing landscape concepts which is reproduced in specific controversies. The paper concludes by highlighting  practical cons.... https://www.landscape-online.org/index.php/lo/article/view/43

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Competing Wind Energy Discourses, Contested Landscapes ; volume:38 ; day:13 ; month:10 ; year:2014 ; Landscape online ; 38 (13.10.2014)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Leibenath, Markus ; Otto, Antje

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.3097/LO.201438
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020060816204186780611
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:46 MESZ