Slowing down to speed up or get off: The role of resource legacies in narratives of wind energy in local transition governance
Abstract
• Wind power governance becomes contested because of temporal misalignments. • Resource legacies are mobilised in the interpretation of wind power experiences. • Local administrations in resource communities construct a legacy of energy peripheralisation and strive to escape it. • Resource legacies can be both positive and negative and shape governance strategies. • Wind power is interpreted either negatively as alien, or as a new chapter in resource extraction.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Energy and Environment Impacts
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Resources Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Volume
- 115
- Pages
- 105879–105879
- Publication date
- 19 February 2026
- Language
- EN