On the spatial differentiation of energy transitions: Exploring determinants of uneven wind energy developments in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.geonika.cz/EN/research/ENMGRClanky/2019_2_FRANT%C3%81LaNOV%C3%81KOV%C3%81.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.geonika.cz/EN/research/ENMGRClanky/2019_2_FRANT%C3%81LaNOV%C3%81KOV%C3%81.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2019-0007" target="_blank" >10.2478/mgr-2019-0007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

On the spatial differentiation of energy transitions: Exploring determinants of uneven wind energy developments in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Wind energy research is dominated by studies of local acceptance (or not) of wind farms and comparative studies at a national level. Research on the spatial differentiation of wind energy developments at the regional level is still insufficient, however. This study provides new empirical evidence for the extent to which regional differences in the deployment of wind energy are related to specific environmental and socioeconomic factors, by a statistical analysis of data for districts in the Czech Republic. Unlike previous studies, we found that the installed capacity of wind energy cannot be well predicted by wind potential, land area and population density in an area. In the Czech Republic, wind farms more likely have been implemented in more urbanised, environmentally deprived coal-mining areas that are affected by economic depression. It seems that in environmentally deprived areas, wind energy is more positively accepted as an alternative source to coal, and the economic motivation (financial benefits for municipalities) can have a greater effect on local acceptance, while public opposition is less efficient due to lower social capital and involvement in political matters. Based on these results, some implications for the planning and spatial targeting of new wind farms are discussed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-04483S" target="_blank" >GA16-04483S: Exploring social-spatial diffusion of renewable energy projects in the Czech Republic: lessons for adaptive governance of energy transition</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Moravian Geographical Reports

ISSN

1210-8812

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

79-91

UT code for WoS article

000474739900002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85069951178