This course was originally developed and presented in March 2011 by the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), in conjunction with Raab Associates Ltd., with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the goal of addressing market and deployment challenges identified in DOE's 2008 report "20% Wind Energy by 2030.
The three-day workshop focused on developing the capacity to collaborate effectively on wind development policy, facility siting, and related issues including aesthetics; noise; wildlife; economics; transmission, and more. Below are the background materials from the course, as well as the presentations given during the workshop.
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Background Materials
Facilitating Wind Energy Siting Resources
How to Negotiate When Values are at Stake, Susskind
The Facility Siting Credo, Kunreuther, Susskind
Presentations
Effective Stakeholder Engagement and Negotiation, A Better Approach: A Mutual Gains Approach
Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Stakeholder and Community Engagement Problem
Kate Harvey, Consensus Building Institute
Abby Arnold, Kearns and West, NWCC and AWWI
Stakeholder Engagement
Neil J. Kiely, First Wind
The Visual Impacts Problem, Wind Energy: Toward Building Consensus
Part 1, Part 2
Jean Vissering Landscape Architecture
Visual Impacts: Cape Wind and VT Energy Future Cases
Jonathan Raab, Raab Associates, Inc.
Picture This: Visual Simulations as a Tool in the Process of Appropriate Siting
Tyler Studds, Vineyard Power
An Introduction to Sound and Wind Turbines
Mark Bastasch, CH2M HILL
Fox Islands Wind: A Case Study
Part 1, Part 2
Suzanne Pude, Island Institute
The Credible Facts Problem
Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abby Arnold, Kearns and West, NWCC and AWW
The Sharing Benefits Problem
Kate Harvey, Consensus Building Institute
Tobey Williamson, Barton and Gingold
Resources
A Visual Impact Assessment Process for Wind Energy Projects
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Watch & ListenPodcast
Energy NIMBYism: Larry Susskind on NHPR -
Watch & ListenPodcast
Resolving Land Use Disputes -
Watch & ListenPresentation
Making Public Engagement Work: A Guide for Conveners -
Watch & ListenPodcast
Why Don't Green Treaties Work? 'Science Extra...
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The above material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under Award Number DE-EE0000502.
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