2019
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0084-8
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Mapping global development potential for renewable energy, fossil fuels, mining and agriculture sectors

Abstract: Mapping suitable land for development is essential to land use planning efforts that aim to model, anticipate, and manage trade-offs between economic development and the environment. Previous land suitability assessments have generally focused on a few development sectors or lack consistent methodologies, thereby limiting our ability to plan for cumulative development pressures across geographic regions. Here, we generated 1-km spatially-explicit global land suitability maps, referred to as “development potent… Show more

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“…However, hitherto studies have largely relied on the use of suitability maps for renewable energy which are not derived from historic placement of energy infrastructure but are rather based on purely climactic characteristics. As a result, they implicitly assume that the climactic characteristics will be the largest driver of installation placement 4,5,8,9,[14][15][16] . At the global scale, a recent study used human influence as a proxy for where energy generation is occurring 11 .…”
Section: Background and Summarymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, hitherto studies have largely relied on the use of suitability maps for renewable energy which are not derived from historic placement of energy infrastructure but are rather based on purely climactic characteristics. As a result, they implicitly assume that the climactic characteristics will be the largest driver of installation placement 4,5,8,9,[14][15][16] . At the global scale, a recent study used human influence as a proxy for where energy generation is occurring 11 .…”
Section: Background and Summarymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ongoing work involves the integration of these datasets with socioeconomic and biophysical predictors to produce probability surfaces for the likely development of wind and solar infrastructure in order to more accurately highlight potential trade-offs with other important sustainable land uses 15 . While potential regions of conflict have been highlighted in previous studies, for example biodiversity and renewable energy 8,9 , these new data allow analysis at whatever resolution there are readily accessible global predictors (currently 1 by 1 km grids).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Renewable energy requires significant land areas, in some cases several fold greater than conventional energy sources (Kiesecker and Naugle, 2017). Historically, renewable energy development has occurred in areas with the highest resource potential (Kiesecker et al, 2011;Oakleaf et al, 2019) and has impacted natural lands (e.g., wind development in the U.S. Great Plains, Fargione et al, 2012). Clearing natural land for energy development removes and fragments habitat resulting in species declines, and removes aboveground carbon storage resulting in increased emissions (e.g., Diffendorfer and Compton, 2014;Allred et al, 2015;Moreira, 2019).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In this context, to examine the impact of different subsidy programs on the optimal architecture of microgrids, we consider the case of an unelectrified rural community located in a tropical climate zone. It should be stressed that certain areas located in tropical climates are characterized by a medium-high to high potential of solar, wind, and hydropower sources, which makes them attractive for the deployment of renewable-based microgrid systems [46]. However, some countries located in these areas continue to subsidize fossil fuels which often makes diesel-fired generators economically competitive, hindering the deployment of renewable technologies [47].…”
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confidence: 99%