Contentious governance of wind energy planning: strategic dilemmas in collaborative resistance by local governments and citizen action groups

Local governments are at the heart of implementing increasingly ambitious national plans for wind energy. While support by local these has been studied extensively, only few studies have looked into governments’ contestation energy development. In this paper we analyze contentious governance processes in which join efforts with citizen action groups to oppose projects proposed developers or government. We focus on strategic dilemmas that face while engaging governance. Uncovering helps see as part a web relationships, thus moving beyond dichotomous understandings players involved farm conflicts. Strategic also allow understanding how stances and their allies change over time, tactical considerations emerge from interaction patterns.