The Notion of Landscape Acceptability as a Potential Key Factor in a New Integrated Approach to Energy and Landscape Policy (with Stanislas Henrion) 2013. Environmental Practice 15(1): 5-18 (original) (raw)

Since the beginning of the process aimed at achieving a shared European energy policy, various problems related to land use conflicts in agricultural contexts affected by largescale green energy power plants have emerged within European countries. These have been addressed as topics of national and local public debates. The examination of the relationships between current energy policies and the transformational processes of contemporary rural landscapes in two European regional contexts -the Beauce Plateau in France and the Alta Murgia region in Italy-suggests that a more transversal conception of both green energy and landscape policy is needed in both contexts. The article explores possible ways forward to elaborate an integrated approach to green energy and landscape policies, which could adadditionally serve as the foundation for a set of landscape acceptability criteria for managing green energy projects. Environmental Practice 15(1) : 5-18