Richard V. Birnie

TL;DR: In this paper, case studies of public attitudes towards existing and proposed windfarm developments in Scotland and Ireland are used to test three counter-intuitive hypotheses derived from previous attitudinal research, namely, local people become more favourable towards windfarms after construction, the degree of acceptance increases with proximity to them, and the NIMBY syndrome does not adequately explain variations in public attitudes.

TL;DR: A review of the environmental, social and political questions surrounding energy and environment in general, and analyses the passionate arguments surrounding onshore wind farm developments in Scotland in particular, is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the Lockerbie area in south-west Scotland, a potentially favorable location for perennial energy crops because of its biophysically suitable for short rotation coppice (SRC) willow, and Britain's first wood-fueled power station provides a significant local market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the SPOT satellite system was used to provide MSS data at 20m resolution and panchromatic data at 10m resolution for soil and landsystem analysis in north-west Europe.

TL;DR: In this paper, the implications for participatory rural development via community data infrastructure provision are discussed, alongside communities' training and education needs in information handling and interpretation, alongside issues of ownership, confidentiality, access, quality, consistency and funding.