Exploring the Socio-Spatial Processes behind a Low-Carbon Transition in the Countryside
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 6140
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Interests: low-carbon transition; diffusion and uptake of renewable energy; socio-spatial consequences of renewable energy; agricultural change; bioenergies; brownfield regeneration; community development
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Interests: land use; brownfield; energy; tourism
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Special Issue Information
We seek to reply to this unprecedented social, economic, environmental, and technological challenge with our call for the Special Issue of Energies on ways in which the countryside, and especially the peripheral countryside, and its population could benefit when gradually transformed and regenerated according to green and low-carbon principles. We are primarily interested in social and spatial processes that occur around the occurrence of renewable energy projects, low-carbon regeneration of brownfield sites in the countryside, and agricultural restructuring. We are also keen to learn more about the spreading of innovations in rural conditions and would like to better understand how these innovations are accepted (or refused) by rural populations.
There is no doubt that the transformation of the countryside has to be built on the principles of a green and low-carbon economy, as our future development is highly dependent on our much friendlier behaviour towards the environment.
Keywords
- low-carbon transition
- social and spatial consequences
- countryside for the future
- rural and community development
- peripheral regions
- acceptance of renewable energy projects
- rural innovations
- agricultural change