Gone with the wind? The impact of wind turbines on tourism demand
Tom Broekel,Christoph Alfken +1 more
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In this article, the authors make use of secondary statistics on tourism and wind turbine locations at the level of German municipalities to confirm a negative relation between wind turbines around municipalities and tourism demand for municipalities not located near the coast.About:
This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2015-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 51 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wind power & Tourism.read more
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Wind Power and Externalities
TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review on wind power and externalities from multiple perspectives is presented, which provides a structured account of external and indirect costs, both mitigated and imposed.
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An overview of the environmental, economic, and material developments of the solar and wind sources coupled with the energy storage systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the last and most important environmental and economic analysis of a grid-connected hybrid network consisting of wind turbine, PV panels, and energy storage systems.
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Tourism, landscapes and cultural ecosystem services: a new research tool
Melanie Smith,Yael Ram +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new tool for analysing the benefits of landscapes for visitors and tourists using the Cultural Ecosystems Services (CES) framework as defined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) in 2005.
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Visitors’ preferences of renewable energy options in “green” hotels
Josef Navrátil,Kamil Pícha,Matthias Buchecker,Stanislav Martinát,Stanislav Martinát,Roman Švec,M. Brezinova,Jaroslav Knotek +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess visitors' preferences of environmentally friendly energy sources in hotels and find that the highest preferences were found for solar panels installed on the rooftops, while a typology of preferences was revealed by cluster analysis and differences between clusters were tested for independent variables.
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Not in my back yard or not on my playground: Residents and tourists' attitudes towards wind turbines in Icelandic landscapes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the perception of residents and tourists towards wind energy production in general and towards Iceland's first proposed wind farm, to be located at the edge of the country's uninhabited interior Central Highlands.
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Local acceptance of wind energy: Factors of success identified in French and German case studies
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