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

Stamatios Ntanos, Grigorios Kyriakopoulos, Miltiadis Chalikias, Garyfallos Arabatzis, Michalis Skordoulis, Spyros Galatsidas and Dimitrios Drosos
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Stamatios Ntanos: Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece
Grigorios Kyriakopoulos: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Greece
Miltiadis Chalikias: Department of Tourism Management, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of West Attica, 12244 Egaleo, Greece
Garyfallos Arabatzis: Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece
Michalis Skordoulis: Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece
Spyros Galatsidas: Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece
Dimitrios Drosos: Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of West Attica, 12244 Egaleo, Greece

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: renewable energy sources; life quality; RES public acceptance; logit regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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