From Water to Biofuels: Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Renewable Energy Sources Among Rural Residents in Eastern Poland

Anna Us, Wojciech J. Florkowski and Anna M. Klepacka

Roczniki (Annals), 2015, vol. 2015, issue 5

Abstract: This article investigates factors influencing knowledge of renewable energy types among 200 residents of 13 villages in Lubelskie province using survey data collected in 2013. Survey summary responses indicate that solar and wind energy were best known and biofuels the least known among five energy types considered in the questionnaire. Factors associated with varying degrees of renewable energy sources were identified using the multivariate ordered probit approach. The largest change in probability that a respondent’s self-assessed knowledge level fell into a specific category was associated with being a farmer, viewing the subject matter of the survey as important, having high income, being from a large household and, being married.

Keywords: Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.233461

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