Wind farm siting and protected areas in catalonia: Planning alternatives or reproducing 'one-dimensional thinking'?

Farrell,Katharine Nora; Pere Ariza, Montobbio

doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/su4123180

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Wind farm siting and protected areas in catalonia: Planning alternatives or reproducing 'one-dimensional thinking'?

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dc.creator	Farrell,Katharine Nora	spa
dc.creator	Pere Ariza, Montobbio	spa
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-19T14:41:23Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-19T14:41:23Z
dc.date.created	2012-11-22	spa
dc.description.abstract	Wind energy is an emblem of sustainability with the potential to promote a qualitative alternative to current energy systems and nuclear options for CO2 reduction. However, wind farm siting often conflicts with aspirations to conserve traditional landscapes and wildlife habitats. In this paper we adopt a Critical Theory perspective, informed by Herbert Marcuse`s work, to study the discourse concerning wind energy siting in Catalonia, Spain. We give particular attention to how tensions between potentially conflicting sustainability objectives are addressed and by whom. Based on a review of this siting discourse and the application of Marcuse’s theory, we find that the Catalan wind energy siting discourse is both influenced by and reproducing what Marcuse referred to as the ‘one-dimensional thinking’ of technology as ideology: erasing the possibility of critical dialectical thought by subsuming the question of “what should be” under the question of “what is”. This has implications both for how these conflicts are investigated and for the sustainability of decisions taken. We conclude that closer attention to the role of ‘one-dimensional thinking’ in wind energy siting discourses could improve not only the understanding of their logic but might also have the potential to help make them more democratic.	eng
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.3390/su4123180
dc.identifier.issn	ISSN: 2071-1050
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/27219
dc.language.iso	eng	spa
dc.publisher	Society for Urban Ecology	spa
dc.relation.citationEndPage	3205
dc.relation.citationIssue	No. 12
dc.relation.citationStartPage	3180
dc.relation.citationTitle	Sustainability, Sustainability (Switzerland)
dc.relation.citationVolume	Vol. 4
dc.relation.ispartof	Sustainability, Sustainability, ISSN: 2071-1050, Vol.4, No.12 (2012); pp. 3180-3205	spa
dc.relation.uri	https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/12/3180	spa
dc.rights.accesRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.acceso	Abierto (Texto Completo)	spa
dc.source	Sustainability, Sustainability (Switzerland)	spa
dc.source.instname	instname:Universidad del Rosario
dc.source.reponame	reponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR
dc.subject.keyword	Wind energy	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Protected areas	spa
dc.subject.keyword	One-dimensional thinking	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Wicked problems	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Discourse analysis	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Post-normal science	spa
dc.title	Wind farm siting and protected areas in catalonia: Planning alternatives or reproducing 'one-dimensional thinking'?	spa
dc.title.TranslatedTitle	Emplazamiento de parques eólicos y espacios protegidos en cataluña: ¿Planificar alternativas o reproducir el 'pensamiento unidimensional'?	spa
dc.type	article	eng
dc.type.hasVersion	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type.spa	Artículo	spa