The Financing of Renewable Energy Sources and the Level of Sustainable Development of Poland’s Provinces in the Area of Environmental Order

Piotr Siemiątkowski, Patryk Tomaszewski, Joanna Marszałek-Kawa and Janusz Gierszewski
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Piotr Siemiątkowski: Faculty of Political Science and Security Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, ul. Stefana Batorego 39L, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Patryk Tomaszewski: Faculty of Political Science and Security Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, ul. Stefana Batorego 39L, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Joanna Marszałek-Kawa: Faculty of Political Science and Security Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, ul. Stefana Batorego 39L, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Janusz Gierszewski: Institute of Security and Management, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, ul. Krzysztofa Arciszewskiego 22A, 76-200 Słupsk, Poland

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-19

Abstract: The overall purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of financing renewable energy sources on the assessment of sustainable development in Poland’s provinces. There are also two detailed objectives: (1) define how Polish policies are being passed on to local authorities; (2) realize a Poland’s provinces ranking, taking into account the indicators of sustainable development, thanks to the taxonomic measure of development in the area of environmental order. This study deals with the taxonomic assessment of local sustainable development in the local administration units of Poland. To this end, the methods of linear ordering were applied for the assessment of the level of objects differentiation with the use of a closed set of statistical features. The presented analysis proved that the taxonomic distances between synthetic measures for particular provinces are considerable. The highest values of the integrated measure in 2018 were obtained by the following provinces: Podlaskie, Subcarpathian and Lubusz. It is noteworthy to point to the big changes in the ranking between 2018 and 2016. The cluster analysis showed some progress in achieving the goals of sustainable development. The group of provinces with an average level of sustainable development in 2018 included six provinces compared to two provinces in 2016. Removing one indicator from the integrated measure (the financing of renewable energy sources (RES)) led to a moderate increase in the integrated measure across all the provinces. This implies that, on average, the financing of renewable energy sources exerts increasingly smaller impacts on the level of sustainable development in Poland.

Keywords: renewable energy sources; sustainable development; Poland’s provinces (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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