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• Provides a literature review of past reseach papers
• Paper has specific section entitled “Does Community Involvement Increase Local Support for Wind Farms?”.  

Section brings out several findings of past papers, and includes many references:

• “People who own shares in a turbine are significantly more positive towards wind energy than people with no economic interest in wind turbines.”
• “local involvement, in either economic or political terms, tends to have positive affects upon public perceptions of wind farms and reflects growing interest in a ‘soft energy path emphasizing ‘community’ aspects of renewable energy development”