Using the “Footprint” Approach to Examine the Potentials and Impacts of Renewable Energy Sources in the European Alps

Hastik, Richard; Walzer, Chris; Haida, Christin; Garegnani, Giulia; Pezzutto, Simon; Abegg, Bruno; Geitner, Clemens

doi:10.1659/mrd-journal-d-15-00071.1

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“…In conformity of this, Sinha et al (2017) and Apergis et al (2018) in their respective studies established that the ecological footprint or CO2 emissions could be controlled by intensifying the use of renewable energy solutions in the long run. However, Hastik et al (2016) suggested that without developing energy-saving production processes, renewable energy consumption alone may not be able to address environmental issues. In terms of EFP generation, the impact of life expectancy is observed direct but insignificant, whereas the population density's impact is observed direct and significant in the long run.…”

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Does renewable energy consumption reduce ecological footprint? Evidence from eight developing countries of Asia

Sharma

Sinha²,

Kautish

2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Economic and demographic transitions led by the persistent increase in the per capita income have challenged the environmental conservation drive in most of the developing nations. Therefore, in recent years, policymakers emphasized the need for navigating the harmful impacts of economic growth endeavors on the established ecosystem. In this regard, the widespread usage of renewable energy solutions has helped in restoring the environmental quality in both developed and developing countries. Keeping this in mind, in the present study, we examined the long run and short-run impacts of per capita income, renewable energy, life expectancy, and population density on the ecological footprint in the eight developing countries of South and Southeast Asia from 1990-2015. In the selected nations, these variables appear to be the potential drivers of the ecological footprint. To calculate the common coefficients, we have employed the cross-sectional augmented autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) approach, as this approach handles the cross-sectional dependency issue efficiently and provides the short-run and long-run coefficients. The long-run results supported the need for low pollution-intense energy resources because the association between per capita income and ecological footprint is found N-shaped. Further, the study established that the increased use of renewable energy has significantly reduced the ecological footprint in the region. However, the increased population density has led to an increase in pollution emissions in these countries. Similarly, the impact of life expectancy on the ecological footprint is found positive but insignificant. Based on the findings, a multipronged policy framework has been designed, so that these nations can attain the objectives of certain sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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Does renewable energy consumption reduce ecological footprint? Evidence from eight developing countries of Asia

Sharma

Sinha²,

Kautish

2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

276

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“…An adequate land will ensure convenient runoff, filtration and purification of water, while adequate clean water runoff will ensure an appropriate soil structure, which will contribute to the maintenance of the land cover and the services related to it. Furthermore, degradation of soil and water bodies caused by energy generation produces great impacts on ecosystems challenging their capacity to deliver important ecosystem services and it has been recently studied by the scientific community [12,13].…”

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Impacts of Decarbonisation on the Water-Energy-Land (WEL) Nexus: A Case Study of the Spanish Electricity Sector

2018

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Over the last decades, combating climate change has been an important concern for policy makers. As a result, many policies have been designed towards this direction. Being electricity generation the focus of climate change mitigation policies, important changes are expected in this sector over the next few years as a result of the implementation of such policies. However, electricity production also generates other impacts on the water, energy and land (WEL) nexus that must be further investigated. To shed some light to this issue, this paper presents and discusses the potential impacts on the water-energy-land nexus resulting from the decarbonisation of the Spanish electricity system impacts under two different long-term scenarios. Using a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach, a set of environmental impacts relevant for the nexus have been analysed for the current and future electricity generation technologies in Spain. Additionally, through the use of an optimization energy model-Times-Spain-the evolution of the electricity technologies in Spain until 2030, under two different scenarios and targets has been assessed. Taking into consideration such scenarios, the global warming, acidification, eutrophication, ecotoxicity, water consumption, resource depletion and land use impacts have been estimated. Results show that, over time, together with the decrease of greenhouse gas emission, acidification and eutrophication tend to decrease in both scenarios. On the contrary, ecotoxicity and resource use impacts tend to increase.

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“…One of these studies [7] lists the average technical (not realizable!) potentials of different renewable energy sources.…”

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“…The results, using the unit GWh/km 2 , show a similar value bandwidth as our results compiled in the catalogue. Based on a four-step method of calculating the energy potentials [8], the average technical potential per square kilometer is estimated, whereas the constraints are defined and applied to help ensure a sustainable land use, the reduced potentials for actual land cover are calculated, and finally, the potentials, production, and demands are compared [7]. These steps have been applied in a similar way as in the ERP_hoch3 project.…”

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Balanced renewable energy scenarios: a method for making spatial decisions despite insufficient data, illustrated by a case study of the Vorderland-Feldkirch Region, Vorarlberg, Austria

2018

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Background: An increasing production of renewable energy requires planning strategies that are able to coordinate the higher-level energy goals with local-level land use interests. While the spatial scope of energy objectives is usually set up on a federal state or national scale, decisions to allocate and implement renewable energy sites are often taken on a municipal scale. This leads to a lack of regional coordination, as the task to achieve a balanced regional energy demand and renewable energy production cannot be solved by individual municipalities alone and calls for cooperation on a regional level. This paper focuses on a recently applied method to support decisions that are committed to empowering the production of renewable energy on a regional scale. In addition, it reflects the generic use of this method, which should be manageable and repeatable under the conditions of an input of only a few quantitative data. At the same time, it addresses the question of how planning decisions, both in spatial and energy planning, may be empowered. Methods:The research team applied a cardboard games approach that required several steps of analysis. First, energy data and spatial attributes of different renewable energy sources were collected from reference projects and the literature. The end product was a catalogue of renewable energy generators, which also included the estimated energy output (kWh/a) and land consumption (m

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Using the “Footprint” Approach to Examine the Potentials and Impacts of Renewable Energy Sources in the European Alps

Cited by 19 publications

References 37 publications

Does renewable energy consumption reduce ecological footprint? Evidence from eight developing countries of Asia

Does renewable energy consumption reduce ecological footprint? Evidence from eight developing countries of Asia

Impacts of Decarbonisation on the Water-Energy-Land (WEL) Nexus: A Case Study of the Spanish Electricity Sector

Balanced renewable energy scenarios: a method for making spatial decisions despite insufficient data, illustrated by a case study of the Vorderland-Feldkirch Region, Vorarlberg, Austria

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