Support for solar energy: Examining sense of place and utility-scale development in California
Support for solar energy: Examining sense of place and utility-scale development in California
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支持太阳能：审视加州的地方感和公用事业规模开发
DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2014.07.006
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
J. Joe
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作者：
Juliet E. Carlisle;S. Kane;David Solan;J. Joe
随着太阳能成本的下降，光伏系统自2003年以来经历了相当大的增长，特别是在中国、日本、德国和美国。因此，当太阳能进入市场和地区时，更细致地了解特定公众对公用事业规模太阳能开发的态度是必要的，并且可能对世界上其他地区具有指导意义，在不久的将来，这种类型的开发将发生。使用收集的数据从2013年的电话调查（N= 594）从六个南加州县选择现有的和拟议的太阳能开发和可用的合适的土地，我们研究公众对太阳能和大型太阳能设施建设的态度，测试是否对这种发展的态度是地方感和依恋的结果。总的来说，我们的结果喜忧参半。除了感知到的积极好处之外，地方依恋和地方感并不能产生显着的影响。也就是说，受访者以积极的方式解释大规模太阳能开发带来的变化，因为感知到的积极经济影响与支持附近的大规模建设呈正相关。
As solar costs have declined PV systems have experienced considerable growth since 2003, especially in China, Japan, Germany, and the U.S. Thus, a more nuanced understanding of a particular public's attitudes toward utility-scale solar development, as it arrives in a market and region, is warranted and will likely be instructive for other areas in the world where this type of development will occur in the near future. Using data collected from a 2013 telephone survey (N= 594) from the six Southern Californian counties selected based on existing and proposed solar developments and available suitable land, we examine public attitudes toward solar energy and construction of large-scale solar facilities, testing whether attitudes toward such developments are the result of sense of place and attachment to place. Overall, we have mixed results. Place attachment and sense of place fail to produce significant effects except in terms of perceived positive benefits. That is, respondents interpret the change resulting from large-scale solar development in a positive way insofar as perceived positive economic impacts are positively related to support for nearby large-scale construction.