Towards Sustainable Energy: A Systematic Review of Renewable Energy Sources, Technologies, and Public Opinions

Qazi, Atika; Fayaz, H.; Rahim, N.A.; Hardaker, Glenn; Alghazzawi, Daniyal; Shaban, Khaled; Haruna, Khalid

doi:10.1109/access.2019.2906402

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“…The Facebook campaign of Miss Thunberg gained more than three million followers on Facebook in 2020 (Facebook data from 10.3.2020) with her page created just on December 7, 2018 (data from 10.3.2020). Similarly to the results reported in Qazi et al [52] and Nisar et al [53], we suggest that the role of social media including the media bubbles in opinion formation requires more research attention as social media constitutes a productive tool for generating public awareness on various events.…”

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Public Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sources: a Case Study from the Czech Republic

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The substitution of traditional energy production with renewable energy sources (RES) in the European Union (EU) represents a multidimensional issue with its pros and cons viewed differently by governments, technology companies, markets, as well as the general public. There are significant public doubts in expediency of investments in renewables in place. Our paper studies the factors related to the public opinion on renewables using a reasonable and representative sample of respondents (N = 1026) from one of the EU Member States, the Czech Republic, via a set of ordinal regression analyses with spline correction for ordinal predictors. Our results suggest that the population of the Czech Republic is split in half in its trust in renewables as a substitute to traditional energy sources. In addition, our results show that the opinions on renewables in the Czech Republic are significantly related to personal concerns on environmental protection and worries about use of nuclear energy. Moreover, we find that traditional mass media is not statistically significant, even though internet news channels and social media were statistically related to the opinions (negatively and positively, respectively). The comparison of the responses with respect to the frequency of following social media support the hypothesis of the media bubble. The empirical results indicate that public opinions on renewables are likely to be built on the information sources vulnerable to hoaxes, bubbles, and misinformation. We conclude that more media presentation on RES is needed and make some practical suggestions for the stakeholders, journalists, and relevant policymakers.

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Public Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sources: a Case Study from the Czech Republic

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“…Formal (newspapers, press releases, and educational messages) and informal sources (social media, online reviews, views of family and peers) of information play a role in improving situational awareness in times of public health emergencies 9‐13 . Retaining situational awareness comprises of perception which relies on these information sources 10 .…”

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Analyzing situational awareness through public opinion to predict adoption of social distancing amid pandemic COVID‐19

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Journal of Medical Virology

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COVID‐19 pandemic has affected over 100 countries in a matter of weeks. People's response toward social distancing in the emerging pandemic is uncertain. In this study, we evaluated the influence of information (formal and informal) sources on situational awareness of the public for adopting health‐protective behaviors such as social distancing. For this purpose, a questionnaire‐based survey was conducted. The hypothesis proposed suggests that adoption of social distancing practices is an outcome of situational awareness which is achieved by the information sources. Results suggest that information sources, formal (P = .001) and informal (P = 0.007) were found to be significantly related to perceived understanding. Findings also indicate that social distancing is significantly influenced by situational awareness, P = .000. It can, therefore, be concluded that an increase in situational awareness in times of public health crisis using formal information sources can significantly increase the adoption of protective health behavior and in turn contain the spread of infectious diseases.

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“…The accuracy of the SA method is based on the existence of large annotated corpora, which is a limited resource for the Arabic language. Moreover, a comparison of the available English and Arabic language datasets indicated that Arabic had a very small dataset [17], [68], [120], [124], [125].…”

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A Review on Arabic Sentiment Analysis: State-of-the-Art, Taxonomy and Open Research Challenges

Abo¹,

Raj²,

Qazi³

2019

IEEE Access

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Due to the significant use of Arabic language in social media networks, the demand for Arabic sentiment analysis has increased rapidly. Although, numerous sentiment analysis techniques enable people to obtain valuable insights from the opinions shared on social media. However, these techniques are still in their infancy, and the Arabic sentiment analysis domain lacks a compressive survey. Therefore, this study focused on the various characteristics, State-of-the-Art, and the level of sentiment analysis along with the natural language processing applied in the Arabic sentiment analysis. Furthermore, this study also discussed the sentiment analysis of the modern standards and the dialects of Arabic languages along with various machine learning processes and a few popular algorithms. Moreover, this study adds values by critical analysis of two case studies, which displayed an extensive set of the various research communities in this field of sentiment analysis. Finally, open research challenges are investigated, with a focus on the shortage of lexicons; availability; use of Dialect Arabic (DA); lack of corpora and datasets; right to left reading and compound phrases and idioms.

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Towards Sustainable Energy: A Systematic Review of Renewable Energy Sources, Technologies, and Public Opinions

Cited by 799 publications

References 99 publications

Public Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sources: a Case Study from the Czech Republic

Public Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sources: a Case Study from the Czech Republic

Analyzing situational awareness through public opinion to predict adoption of social distancing amid pandemic COVID‐19

A Review on Arabic Sentiment Analysis: State-of-the-Art, Taxonomy and Open Research Challenges

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