If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together. A case study into stakeholder involvement of onshore wind farms in Gelderland, The Netherlands.

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2021-06-28
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The implementation of renewable energy systems like wind turbines has been relatively slow in the Netherlands, due to the lack of social acceptance. The present study aimed to find how stakeholder involvement in the development of wind farms could potentially increase local acceptance of onshore wind turbines by creating a broader, psychological sense of ownership. Stakeholder involvement was studied from a justice perspective, in which the consequences of procedural, distributive, interpersonal, and informational justice on local acceptance and sense of ownership were identified. To investigate this relationship, fourteen interviews were conducted among four wind farms in Gelderland the Netherlands. The present study finds how different forms of stakeholder involvement could create a feeling of justice. These feelings of justice in turn contribute to the local acceptance. Moreover, the interrelatedness of the different forms of justice is extensively discussed. Also, the influence of the legal structure of the project is discussed, while both cooperatives and commercial projects are capable of using the same structural elements to create stakeholder involvement, cooperatives have an easier time creating local acceptance. The present study has provided a framework on how stakeholder involvement influences local acceptance and therefore lays the groundwork for future research.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen
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