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Title Wind power and power politics : international perspectives / edited by Peter A. Strachan, David Toke & David Lal
Published New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; 9
Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; 9.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Appendices; Foreword; 1 Assessing National Patterns of Wind Ownership; 2 Wind-Power Outcomes: Myths and Reality; 3 Local Social Acceptance Through Local Involvement: The Case of Wind-Power Implementation in North Rhine-Westphalia; 4 The Wind-Power Market in the Netherlands: Assessing the Performance of Wind Cooperatives; 5 Corporate Interests and Spanish Wind-Power Deployment; 6 Wind-Energy Policy Development in Ireland: A Critical Analysis; 7 Assessing the Performance of the UK Renewables Obligation: Cinderella or an Ugly Sister?
Summary The aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind power deployment programmes. A central theme is the relationship between patterns of ownership and the outcomes
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed October 2, 2009)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Wind power -- Government policy -- Case studies
Energy policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Energy policy
Wind power -- Government policy
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Strachan, Peter A.
Toke, David.
Lal, David.
ISBN 9780203886427
0203886429
0415961300
9780415961301