Renewable Energy in Wilderness Landscapes: Visitors’ Perspectives

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Edita Tverijonaite, Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, C. Michael Hall
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019
• Subjects: renewable energy; energy infrastructure; nature-based tourism; visual impacts; wilderness; visitor; archi; envir; Hverfisfljót; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205812; https://doaj.org/article/747c2427d24b41e0a1abc7203793059b

Increasing the share of renewable energy in the energy mix is of crucial importance for climate change mitigation. However, as renewable energy development often changes the visual appearance of landscapes and might affect other industries relying on them, such as nature-based tourism, it therefore...