Community responses to the close proximity of industrial scale wind developments.
This research is unique when taken in the context of other research done into community responses to large-scale wind developments in that it is conducted by someone with lived long-term experience and multigenerational connections to this region. The paper gives a wider understanding of unique rural cultural norms and values, as well as phenomenological perceptions of large-scale industrial developments, and their impacts on landscapes, strongly tied to identity formation. It raises issues such perturbation of already stressed communities with minimal mental health services; loss of access to regional and state based television, increasing feelings of isolation, loneliness, which in conjunction with significant disruption to friendship networks, important to resilience in rural areas.