How education orientation affects attitudes toward wind energy and wind farms: implications for the planning process

Table 1 Effects of respondents’ characteristics and their interactions (last four rows) on their perception of landscapes with wind turbines (WTs)

Variable	Abbreviation	Df	Chi	P
Type of education	Education	1	673.94	<10⁻⁶
Willingness to live near WTs	Willingness	2	267.86	<10⁻⁶
Presence of WTs within 10 km of the respondent’s home	Presence	1	55.46	<10⁻⁶
General attitude toward wind energy	Attitude	2	17.86	<10⁻⁴
Education: attitude		2	187.26	<10⁻⁶
Presence of WTs: attitude		2	60.31	<10⁻⁶
Willingness: attitude		4	11.98	0.02
Willingness: education		2	4.59	0.10

Df degrees of freedom, Chi value of test statistic, P obtained probability (levels lower than 0.05 indicate a significant result (i.e. effect of a variable on landscape perception)

ISSN: 2192-0567