Where Next for Wind? Welcome and Introduction Dr Peter Strachan, Reader, Aberdeen Business School

Where Next for Wind?Welcome and Introduction

Dr Peter Strachan, Reader, Aberdeen Business Schoolp.a.strachan@rgu.ac.uk

Background• International Sustainable Development

Research Conference, Wind Power Track, June, 2005 (Chair: Dr Peter Strachan)

• Greening of Industry Network Conference, Wind Power Track, July, 2006 (Chairs: Dr Peter Strachan & Dr Richard Cowell)

• Networking activities and research outputs arising from these and related activities have been significant!

AimThe aim of the seminar series is to drive forward critical investigations of the factors

affecting the deployment of wind power, improve the evidence base, and deepen the pool of lessons for policy and management

orientated research

Objectives1. To take a multi-disciplinary approach to explain national

and regional variations in wind power deployment2. To provide a forum for connecting social science and

other researchers, and to assist in the development of early career academics

3. To ensure constructive engagement between academic and practitioner stakeholders

4. To inform wider policy and academic debates about European environmental governance, and renewable energy deployment

Forthcoming Seminar Events• Policy Instruments – Financing and Support

Mechanisms, May, 2008, University of Bath• Wind Power and ‘the Planning Problem’,

November, 2008, Queens University Belfast• Ownership and Stakeholding in the Wind Power

Debate, February, 2009, University of Cardiff • Limits to Wind?, May, 2009, University of St

Andrews