Wealth of Wind and Visitors: Tourist Industry Attitudes towards Wind Energy Development in Iceland
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Overall
The article is very interesting and, in my opinion, well focused. Although the qualitative approach followed as a method is relatively simple, I believe that it has served its purpose and gives concrete and clear results. Of course, it could be done in a more organized way, for example, through the Delphi approach or through a focus group, where more and more in-depth results could be obtained. The article is well organized and clear in all its sections. There could be a slight improvement in the discussion section, but also in a conclusion section that could be added.
Comments
1. At the end of the last paragraph of Introduction section please add the purposes of the paper and a brief description of the paper structure.
2. There are many repetitions in some sections and sub-sections of the paper (for example about the visual impacts by the wind turbines etc.). Please avoid repetitions because they create confusion to readers and increase only the text size.
3. A part from the first paragraph of page 14 in Discussion section must be transferred to a previous section (maybe in subsection 3.1, where there is mentioning about the implementation of Master Plan).
4. The second paragraph of page 14 in Discussion section is on the 'air'. The authors simply mention some hypotheses of research' participants without citations, proofs or arguments. I suggest, this paragraph to be re-writing or to be change.
5. In my opinion, the paper needs a separate conclusion section, where except the generalized conclusion, the authors could be mention to study limitation and future research also.
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Reviewer 2 Report
This is a well-written paper on a topical subject.
It might be appropriate to discuss, even briefly, the transmission of power from wind turbines and attitudes towards pylons etc. In other countries the power lines associated with electricity transmission are as unpopular as the turbines. This may not be an issue if the power does not feed into a grid.
It might be worth contacting Martin Lohman, I think Kiel University in Germany, who did a similar study on attitudes towards 'windmills' (turbines) some years ago.
Maybe a comment on why people like the old Dutch type of windmill but not the modern turbines? The purpose is the same, have tastes changed?
Has Iceland contemplated locating wind farms offshore?
The reference to "chapter" on page 3 should be changed to paper?
Otherwise this is a good paper ready for publication.
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Reviewer 3 Report
I enjoyed reading this research which contributes to the further understanding of the relation between wind farms and nature tourism. However, the authors should revise specially the methodology description:
- the authors should clarify if the same interviewer did all the interviews.
- the authors should justify the rationale of study method and study sample with previous references.
- the authors should further explain how the analysis was conducted. They reported that it was based on the grounded theory method using the software Atlas, but this sentence should be further developed.
- the authors should revise some quotes in the results which are not identified with “” or indented.
- the authors should elaborate an independent conclusion section.
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Reviewer 4 Report
Dear Authors,
In my opinion you have an interesting paper. However in order to improve it, I suggest some minor revisions:
- in the introduction define the research problem. Here also add the structure of the paper.
- Concerning methodology, please clarify the content of the interview. What questions did you asked? These questions where based in literature review? Also clarify why did you choose 47 promotors/entrepreneurs to respond to the interview. Also in relation to the interview how do you analyse the information? Did you utilize any software to do that?
- Concerning results, I would like to see more citations and expressions of interviews. A suggestion is to identify and number the interviews and add more comments of them in the text (please do that).
- In relation to the end section, I would like to see a conclusion section where you present the conclusions of the study, implications for theory, practice and eventually political. Also here you should add the limitations of the study and paths for future research.
I wish you a good work!!!!
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Round 2
Reviewer 3 Report
The authors need to further explain how the discussion of the codes
with the research team influenced the definition and selection of the
codes.
Author Response
Attached you will find the revised manuscript where we have addressed the additional comment from you.
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