Assesing the impact of renewable energy deployment on local sustainability: Towards a theoretical framework
Date
2008-06Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de EconomíaBibliographic citation
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2008, v. 12, n. 5, p. 1325-1344
Keywords
Renewable energy
Regional development
Local sustainability
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Renewable energy sources (RES) have a large potential to contribute to the sustainable development (SD) of specific territories by providing them with a wide variety of socioeconomic and environmental benefits. However, the existing literature has put much emphasis on the environmental benefits (including the reduction of global and local pollutants), while socioeconomic impacts have not received a comparable attention. These include diversification of energy supply, enhanced regional and rural development opportunities, creation of a domestic industry and employment opportunities. With the exception of the diversification and security of energy supply, these benefits have usually been mentioned, but their analysis has been too general (i.e., mostly at the national level) and a focus on the regional and, even more so, the local level, has been lacking. At most, studies provide scattered evidence of some of those regional and local benefits, but without an integrated conceptual framework to analyse them. This paper tries to make a contribution in this regard by developing an integrated theoretical framework which allows a comprehensive analysis of the impact of renewable energy on local sustainability and which can be empirically applied to identify these benefits indifferent territories.
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