A Social Assessment of the Usage of Renewable Energy Sources and Its Contribution to Life Quality: The Case of an Attica Urban Area in Greece

Sustainability

Dimitrios Drosos¹  Spyros Galatsidas²  Stamatios Ntanos²  Michalis Skordoulis²  Garyfallos Arabatzis²  Miltiadis Chalikias³  Grigorios Kyriakopoulos⁴ 

[1] Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of West Attica, 12244 Egaleo, Greece;Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece;Department of Tourism Management, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of West Attica, 12244 Egaleo, Greece;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Greece;

关键词: renewable energy sources;    life quality;    RES public acceptance;    logit regression;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su10051414

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and their contribution to citizens’ life quality. For this purpose, a survey was conducted using a sample of 400 residents in an urban area of the Attica region in Greece. The methods of Principal Components Analysis and Logit Regression were used on a dataset containing the respondents’ views on various aspects of RES. Two statistical models were constructed for the identification of the main variables that are associated with the RES’ usage and respondents’ opinion on their contribution to life quality. The conclusions that can be drawn show that the respondents are adequately informed about some of the RES’ types while most of them use at least one of the examined types of RES. The benefits that RES offer, were the most crucial variable in determining both respondents’ perceptions on their usage and on their contribution to life quality.

【 授权许可】

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