Gap between words and actions: Empirical study on consistency of residents supporting renewable energy development in China

Fang, Xingming; Wang, Lu; Sun, Chuanwang; Zheng, Xuemei; Wei, Jing

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111945

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“…The marginal effect values show that an increase in a respondent's age by 1 year reduces his/her high level of acceptance (strongly agree) by 0.013 and increases his/her low level of acceptance by 0.0001. This result confirms the results of [5,53], who argued that respondents' age negatively correlates with their acceptance of RE. This indicates that while older people are more risk-averse, especially if they are attached to what they accept as a norm, younger people are more inclined to take risks and tend to accept and adopt new technologies.…”

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“…This has become even more important because the residential sector in most countries is the majority in terms of energy consumption [4]. The residential sector also plays a crucial role in promoting the development and utilization of RE [5,6]. Researchers [7][8][9] have indicated that the lower acceptance of residents relative to the development and use of RE could have a dire consequence on its approval process and deployment by governments.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Clean Energies for Ghana—An Empirical Study on the Level of Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Development and Utilization

2021

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Despite the enormous renewable energy (RE) resources available in Ghana, the country has not seen much development and investments in the sector. Therefore, the government has committed to increasing the share of RE in the country’s electricity generation mix to some 10% by 2030. However, this cannot be achieved without the Ghanaian people’s support since the RE sector is capital intensive and requires both public and private sector participation. This study was conducted to evaluate RE’s social acceptance among Ghanaian people using the ordered logit regression model. A total of 999 valid questionnaires out of 1020 distributed questionnaires were considered for the study. The five-point Likert scale was employed to rank their willingness to accept (WTA) RE. From the results, it was observed that there is a general sense of acceptance of renewable energy among Ghanaians. However, the level of acceptance varies from one respondent to another. The study observed that a majority of the respondents (i.e., approximately 45.65%) agree to their WTA renewable energy, while 36.04% strongly agree. The results also indicate that while 6.21% and 0.3% disagree and strongly disagree, 11.81% of the respondents were indifferent regarding their willingness to accept renewable energy development and utilization in Ghana.

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Clean Energies for Ghana—An Empirical Study on the Level of Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Development and Utilization

2021

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“…The research of (Yang, Zhang, & Zhang, 2016) also shows that urbanization has a great contribution to renewable energy consumption. (Fang, Wang, & Sun, et al 2021) used the Bivariate Probit model to study that residents' attitudes also have an impact on the development of renewable energy. Finally, energy factors cannot be ignored in the development of renewable energy.…”

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The impact of environmental regulation on renewable energy development in China from the perspective of spatial effects

Yang

Tan

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Preprint

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From a spatial perspective, this paper constructs a spatial Durbin model based on the adjacent weight matrix to analyze the impact of environmental regulation on the development of renewable energy in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) in China from 2007 to 2020. The results show that: 1) Both environmental regulation and renewable energy development have positive spatial autocorrelation, and form relatively similar spatial agglomeration areas, specifically showing the characteristics of "high-high" agglomeration in resource-rich areas, and "low-low" agglomeration in resource-scarce areas. 2) In general, the intensity of environmental regulation in this province has a significant role in promoting the development of renewable energy and has a significant spatial spillover effect on the development of renewable energy in neighboring provinces due to the influence of geographical distance, economic level, infrastructure construction and other factors. 3) The moderating effect results show that infrastructure construction and electricity demand play an inverse moderating role between environmental regulation and renewable energy development. 4) From the perspective of different regions, the impact of environmental regulation on the development of renewable energy is heterogeneous. Based on the research conclusions, this paper finally puts forward some policy suggestions, such as strengthening the environmental assessment and incentive system, strengthening the cooperation between local governments and rationally optimizing the energy structure.

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“…For example, Li (2021) [ 18 ] analyzed the key factors that influence the willingness–behavior consistency of farmers to adopt photovoltaic agriculture, and Qiu (2022) [ 19 ] explored whether there is a deviation between farmers’ willingness and behavior to adopt electricity-saving tricycles, and they both concluded that gender, age, education, planting scale, and land transfer can significantly affect the deviation between farmers’ production behavior and willingness Guo (2021) [ 9 ] took rice farmers’ willingness and behaviors regarding the application of biopesticides as the research object, and argued that farmers’ green production cognition significantly negatively affects the deviation. Academics also found that the external environment—such as government support, regional differences, and proximity to cities—can affect farmers’ green production behavior–willingness deviation [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ]. Moreover, the theory of planned behavior is often used to explain the factors that influence farmer’s behaviors and willingness [ 24 ].…”

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Gap between Willingness and Behaviors: Understanding the Consistency of Farmers’ Green Production in Hainan, China

Qiao

et al. 2022

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The green transformation of production modes plays an essential role in the sustainable development of China’s agriculture and the modernization process, but there is often a deviation between farmers’ behavior and their willingness regarding green production. This paper analyzed the factors influencing the deviation of farmers’ green production behaviors from their willingness, along with their hierarchical logic structure, using the ordered logit model and ISM model with field survey data of 436 households in Hainan Province. The results show that: (1) there are deviations between farmers’ green production behavior and willingness; (2) age, number of dependents, peer influence, and social networks aggravate farmers’ green production behavior–willingness deviation, while ethnicity, education, land fragmentation, agricultural expenditure, land transfer, neighborhood learning, and green production cognition mitigate the deviation; (3) among the significant influencing factors, farmers’ perceptions of green production, peer influence, land transfer, and agricultural expenditure are the direct surface factors, while neighborhood learning, land fragmentation, and number of dependents are the middle indirect factors, and farmers’ education, social networks, age, and ethnicity are the deep-rooted factors. This study sheds more light and detail on the understanding of the factors influencing farmers’ green production behavior–willingness deviation, and provides more practical and relevant guidance for the agricultural green development in tropical China.

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Gap between words and actions: Empirical study on consistency of residents supporting renewable energy development in China

Cited by 51 publications

References 58 publications

Clean Energies for Ghana—An Empirical Study on the Level of Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Development and Utilization

Clean Energies for Ghana—An Empirical Study on the Level of Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Development and Utilization

The impact of environmental regulation on renewable energy development in China from the perspective of spatial effects

Gap between Willingness and Behaviors: Understanding the Consistency of Farmers’ Green Production in Hainan, China

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