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Wind Power Deployment as a Stressor for Ecosystem Services: A Comparative Case Study from Germany and Sweden

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The ecological and social impacts of wind power plants affect the provision of ecosystem services in many ways, mainly with respect to cultural services as well as habitat provision. These challenges need to be considered when a proper institutional framework for the deployment of wind power is to be designed to mitigate trade-offs between different ecosystem services. Understanding how the current institutional framework affects the spatial allocation of wind turbines and the related impacts on ecosystem services is a first step towards this insight. Using the cases of Germany and Sweden, we show that both noninstitutional and institutional factors may have a significant impact on the distribution of wind turbines. Their relative importance varies with geographical and regulatory contexts.

Keywords

  • Wind power
  • Renewable energy policy
  • Ecosystem services
  • Wind power deployment

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  1. Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Thomas Lauf, Erik Gawel & Paul Lehmann

  2. Economics Unit, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Kristina Ek & Patrik Söderholm

  3. Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Infrastructure and Resources Management, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Erik Gawel & Paul Lehmann

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan Klotz

  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Ralf Seppelt

  5. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Cornelia Baessler

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Lauf, T., Ek, K., Gawel, E., Lehmann, P., Söderholm, P. (2019). Wind Power Deployment as a Stressor for Ecosystem Services: A Comparative Case Study from Germany and Sweden. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_20

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