Study 6 will use a survey to compare the study communities with each other and wider publics. A questionnaire distributed to thousands of residents will measure the hypothesized determinants of turbine support that emerge in our previous studies and those that already appear in the literature (e.g., trust, community engagement, financial benefits) – using regression models. For example, the survey can explore whether the amount of benefits going the community matters as much as the distribution of those benefits, or the role pride in contributing to a rewewable energy future plays in support (or not) for the local wind energy installation. A shorter version of the questionnaire will be distributed to a random sample of non-turbine community residents (both rural and urban) to compare how attitudes in the general population, including rural how areas without turbines differ from those living under what we define as strong and weak community development models.
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