Determinants of homeowners' attitudes to the installation of high-voltage overhead transmission lines. Issue 4 (2nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Elliott, Peter; Wadley, David; Han, Jung Hoon
• Is Part Of: Journal of environmental planning and management. Volume 59:Issue 4(2016)
• Page Start: 666
• Page End: 686
• Publication Date: 2016-04-02
• Subjects: electricity transmission -- attitude -- negativity -- risk perception -- health effects; City planning -- Periodicals; City planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 333.7
• DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2015.1035776
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-0568

Abstract

Abstract : This article deals comprehensively with factors which influence attitudes to the placement of high-voltage overhead transmission lines (HVOTLs). It employs an analytical schema which links the initial stimulus of the power lines' proposal in an area to Background and Socio-economic independent variables and a set of mediating variables. From a survey of 600 residents in three different domiciliary settings in Queensland, Australia, results indicate an absence of positive attitudes and, at best, neutral ones to HVOTL placement. By multinomial logistic regression, the study probes the grounds behind negativity and extreme negativity, uncovering direct links between these attitudes and certain of the variables included in the analytical schema.