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Residents' and visitors' attitudes and perceptions towards currently existing wind farms in the vicinity of a built heritage site in Portugal.

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The paper sheds light on the positive impact that the community’s or local actors’ involvement in the constitution, management and decision-making processes has on the residents’ perceptions and attitudes regarding wind farms, and also on the trade-off with the perceived effect of wind farms on local tourism. Moreover, it shows that although most visitors criticised the proximity of wind turbines to medieval architecture, a clear majority of them accepted their presence and virtually all of them stated that these facilities had no impact on their choice of destination.

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This page is a summary of: Wind farms and rural tourism: A Portuguese case study of residents’ and visitors’ perceptions and attitudes, Moravian Geographical Reports, December 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/mgr-2017-0021.
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