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Impacts Generated by a Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Can Lead to Conflicts between Sustainable Development Goals: A Review of Key Lessons Learned in Madagascar
- Source :
- Sustainability, Sustainability, MDPI, 2020, 12 (18), pp.7471. ⟨10.3390/su12187471⟩, Volume 12, Issue 18, Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7471, p 7471 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2020.
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Abstract
- In a context of energy transition towards renewable energies, this case study situated in Madagascar allows us to verify the extent to which an on-grid photovoltaic solar power plant represents a vector for sustainable development. The article proposes a model for assessing sustainability from a qualitative multi-criteria perspective. This analysis fits into the theoretical question of the science of sustainability by challenging the theory of endogenous development. The innovation of this research is based on the use of a qualitative approach to a technological issue filling a literature gap in the major issue of the effective sustainability of renewable energy (particularly in the context of an island state). The study emphasizes that the plant can only represent a vector for sustainable development with the collaboration of the concerned parties, which implies considering the electrification needs at the local level. The article confirms that the impacts generated by the power plant can lead to conflicts between different sustainable development goals. Theoretically, the study emphasizes that the evaluation of the sustainability of solar power plants should follow a process that: (i) uses a preferably qualitative methodology likely to understand the local conditions of the communities in which they are established<br />(ii) identifies dissociated indicators while taking into account the context<br />and (iii) analyzes the possible negative interactions between the impact areas by highlighting the key areas linked to land management and the well-being of women within a poverty reduction approach.
- Subjects :
- Power station
poverty
020209 energy
Geography, Planning and Development
TJ807-830
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Energy transition
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
Renewable energy sources
12. Responsible consumption
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
photovoltaic
multi-criteria analysis
11. Sustainability
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
GE1-350
Solar power
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Sustainable development
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Photovoltaic system
developing country
1. No poverty
Building and Construction
15. Life on land
Environmental economics
sustainability
sustainable development goals
renewable energy
endogenous development
solar
Renewable energy
Environmental sciences
13. Climate action
Sustainability
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability, Sustainability, MDPI, 2020, 12 (18), pp.7471. ⟨10.3390/su12187471⟩, Volume 12, Issue 18, Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7471, p 7471 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....907b61a61059c61cf6a007d17c3465f4