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Aim The 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
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Where Next for Wind?Welcome and Introduction
Dr Peter Strachan, Reader, Aberdeen Business [email protected]
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
