Establishing acceptability: wind energy and community in the energy transition

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dc.contributor.authorLennon, Breffní
dc.contributor.editorBourdin, Sébastien
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-08T12:50:01Z
dc.date.available2026-07-08T12:50:01Z
dc.date.issued2026-01-15
dc.description.abstractEnergy transitions are invariably socio-technical phenomena. However, institutional bias toward resolving the associated technical and economic barriers has left significant blind spots with regards to the social and cultural contexts that both frame and facilitate transitions. While it characterizes the current malaise, particularly in relation to the planetary crisis, this approach has also undermined efforts to realize the systemic shift to a decarbonized energy future. Past energy transitions rarely considered issues of social justice or community cohesion. Instead, a minority of actors effectively captured the commons that had previously been available to a majority of stakeholders. The current transition is different and is notable by the diversity of voices visioning the types of future available to us and very much depends on the choices we make both collectively and individually. Even when the technical and regulatory barriers are addressed, ignoring the social dimension can and has undermined expected outcomes envisioned by policy makers. This chapter outlines one such example of the types of questions raised around community and cohesion as they relate to a wind farm proposed for the southwest of Ireland.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidLennon, Breffní§0000-0002-9957-5765
dc.identifier.authororcidBourdin, Sébastien
dc.identifier.citationLennon, B 2026, Establishing acceptability: wind energy and community in the energy transition. in S Bourdin (ed.), The Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Glos, pp. 180-194. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035348756.00016
dc.identifier.doi10.4337/9781035348756.00016
dc.identifier.endpage194
dc.identifier.isbn978 1 03534874 9
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dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9957-5765/work/220111837
dc.identifier.startpage180
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19026
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEdward Elgar Publishing
dc.relation.ispartofThe Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects
dc.relation.urihttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105032382021
dc.rightsThis is a draft chapter The final version is available in The Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects edited by Sébastien Bourdin, published in 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035348756 It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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dc.subjectAcceptability
dc.subjectEnergy Transition
dc.subjectEnergy geographies
dc.subjectPlace
dc.subjectSituatedness
dc.subjectSocial Innovation
dc.subjectSustainable communities
dc.subject[EngineeringArchitecture]
dc.subjectEnergy transition
dc.subjectSocial innovation
dc.titleEstablishing acceptability: wind energy and community in the energy transitionen
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