| dc.description.abstract | The Norwegian state signed the European Landscape Convention in 2001, 23 years ago, committing itself to integrating a comprehensive view of landscape into its laws, policies, and plans. One would believe the theme of landscape to be revitalized and re-centred in the process of developing large scale renewable infrastructure, but how has the use of landscape changed after the Convention came into force? And how can landscape and renewable energy be understood?
This thesis looks at how landscape has been operationalised in the process of developing Tellenes Wind Park in Rogaland, Norway. The thesis also looks at how landscape and energy can be understood together.
The thesis is based on a document review of the key documents in the process of getting the license to develop Tellenes Wind Park. Tellenes is unique in that they applied for license both in 2006, and in 2011. Comparing the documents, and reading them with a landscape-centric views, reveals that little has changed in how the applicant, assessors and responsible authority uses the term. Even though there have been written new guidelines, and the responsible authority has become better at clarifying and specifying the requirements for assessing impacts on landscape in wind power development, the assessments produced are still eerily similar to those that came before. | |
