Purpose

Wind power is increasingly considered essential in countries’ transition towards a fossil independent energy system. However, siting of wind turbines has proven to be a challenging endeavor for planners and developers, not taking into account that national level aims do not always go hand in hand with local level realities. This course focuses on the challenges in siting of wind turbines. Taking different theoretical perspectives, the course provides frameworks to analyze both the processes behind and the results from previous wind turbine projects and policies, so as to make it possible to recommend new planning and development procedures including citizen engagement, non-economic incentives, and regulatory framework. The course draws on the experiences from the research project WIND2050 (chaired by the Technical University, Denmark), and is conducted in a collaboration with the involved partners.

Organizers

University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Section for Environment and Natural Resources.

Preliminary programme

Education

PhD & Postdoc

Learning outcome

The aim of the course is to present PhD students with selected theories and analytical frameworks with which to analyse wind turbine planning and better understand the controversies behind wind turbine planning and ways to resolve them.

Literature

The course will be based on scientific articles and key references related to environmental psychology, behavioural economics, law and environmental justice, demoracy theory and controversy mapping, applied to the case of wind turbine planning.

Teaching and learning methods

The course consists of lectures, real life cases, exercises, students’ colloquia and excursion. Prior to the course, the students prepare and hand in a written assignment based on the course literature and applied to their own PhD study case.

Fee

A fee of 1500 is charged to cover food expenses, inclusive of dinner Thursday night.

Registration

Charlotte Bukdahl Jacobsen: cja@ifro.ku.dk no later than 1. August 2016.

Credit

3 ECTS

Exam

Type of assessment: Handing in written assignment and active participation in the course

Aid: all aids allowed.

Marking scale: Passed/Failed

Censorship form: No external censorship, internal examiners

Criteria for exam assessment:  See criteria for Learning outcome