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
Authors: Ntanos, Stamatios 
Drosos, Dimitrios 
Chalikias, Miltiadis 
Skordoulis, Michalis 
Galatsidas, Spyros 
Kyriakopoulos, Grigorios 
Arabatzis, Garyfallos 
Issue Date: 3-May-2018
Journal: Sustainability 
Volume: 10
Issue: 5
Keywords: Life quality, Logit regression, Renewable energy sources, RES public acceptance
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.
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su10051414
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/1841
Type: Article
Department: Department of Business Administration 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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