Willingness of rural communities to adopt biogas systems in Pakistan: Critical factors and policy implications

Jan, Inayatullah; Akram, Waqar

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2017.03.141

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“…However, education had both direct and indirect significant effect towards dynamics of intensions to adopt BT. This finding is consistent with [20]. Education influences intentions indirectly by mediating through all factors of attitude, subjective norms, and perceived control through only resources.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…For behavioral beliefs, it was observed that emission reduction, waste reduction and energy source played a role in significantly influencing intentions to adopt BT which is supported by previous studies [19,20,31]. The use of BT and its associated benefits cannot be over emphasized.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 56%

“…This suggests that one's level of education plays a key role towards intentions to adopt BT. Studies have shown that analytical capability of information and understanding of a technology are all linked to a person's level of education [20,31]. Therefore, the level of education will inform the level of comprehension of biogas technology and consequently its adoption.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although some studies have researched on what influences the behavior of households to adopt BT [19][20][21][22], little is known about the dynamics of how Ghanaian household heads' intentions influence their decisions to either adopt or reject BT. Adoption and utilization of BT by households seem suitable for Ghana's waste characteristics, and considering the fact that the country has an average temperature of 30°C [23], which is suitable for facilitating anaerobic decomposition.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Dynamics of Household Heads’ Intentions to Adopt Biogas Technology in Ghana

Osei-Marfo

Vries

Awuah

2020

JENRR

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Evidence abounds that biogas technology has enormous health and environmental benefits, including improvement of community livelihood and health, sanitation, sustainable energy and reduced emissions. In spite of these benefits, intentions to adopt biogas technology are low among household heads in developing countries, notably Ghana. This study aimed to investigate the dynamics of household heads' intentions to adopt biogas technology, based on the theory of planned behavior. The study adopted an exploratory design and collected data from 394 household heads' using questionnaires. It was discovered that attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control are significant predictors and independently contributed to predicting household heads' intentions to adopt biogas technology. Additionally, the study found that, the dynamics of ethnicity and education have a significantly direct effect on household heads' intentions to adopt biogas technology. The study recommends that respected persons in local communities, using Osei-Marfo et al.; JENRR, 4(2): 44-56, 2020; Article no.JENRR.55025 45 different ethnic dialects, lead public education and awareness creation on the benefits of the use of biogas technology. Besides, government should subsidize the cost of biogas plants installation so as to promote its adoption rate. Original Research Article

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Dynamics of Household Heads’ Intentions to Adopt Biogas Technology in Ghana

Osei-Marfo

Vries

Awuah

2020

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“…In addition, it has been found that areas with higher biogas technical potential had biogas plants with higher capacities [25]. In terms of social factors, education level has been found to have a strong positive influence on biogas plant decisions in various studies [30][31][32][33][34][35]. The economic factors that have been systematically analysed and believed to have impacts on biogas plant adoption were income per capita at the household level and GDP density at the regional level [30,34,36].…”

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Effects of the German Renewable Energy Act and Environmental, Social and Economic Factors: Biogas Plants Adoption and Agricultural Landscape Change

Yang

Liu

Thrän

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Background: The German energy transition strategy calls for reform of the German energy sector. Against this background, the Germany Renewable Energy Sources Act, or EEG, was issued in 2000 and is widely regarded as a successful legislation for promoting bioenergy development, as more than 9000 biogas plants were built in Germany until 2017. However, the impact from different EEG periods on regional biogas plants’ development and the long-term influence to regional landscape change are rarely simultaneously studied. Methods: This study aimed to quantitatively analyse the impact of the EEG on promotion the biogas plant development in central Germany (CG) by using the event study econometric technique. A GIS-based spatial analysis was further conducted to provide insight into the changes of the agricultural landscape, which was resulted from the development of biogas plants during the EEG from 2000 to 2014. Results: One of the main findings was that the EEGs had time-varying effects on motivating biogas plants construction and selecting the plants size. The comparison between different EEG emendations suggested that the EEG 2009 was the most successful one in market implementation. Besides, the adoption of the biogas plant in CG was mainly driven by the farmer’s financial incentive and taken as an investment to secure the farming business. At the landscape scale, the expansion of silage maize was remarkable in CG from 2000 to 2014. The silage maize was intensively cultivated in the regions with high biogas plant installed capacity. Since EEG 2009, the regional livestock number increased rapidly, which was also associated with increasing pasture land area in CG. This phenomenon suggested a promising regional animal farming and its potential of manure as biogas feedstock. Conclusions: These findings imply that the policy makers should take the EEG 2009 emendation as reference to promote the marketing of future new renewable energy technologies and cautions should be paid on the potential land conflicts of agricultural-based bioenergy development.

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