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Conflicts and opportunities for the development of photovoltaic solar energy in a context of biodiversity conservation and maintenance of agricultural land uses in Catalonia

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Año de publicación 2021
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Descripción: Abstract: To ensure a sustainable future, climate and biodiversity emergencies must be addressed together. Photovoltaic energy has emerged in the EU as a very attractive alternative to conventional energy production to achieve the objectives of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. However, clean energy sources can also have significant negative impacts on the environment and conflict with other interests in the territory, such as habitat fragmentation and contamination, loss of productive soil and pressure on agricultural uses. We have created and evaluated two contrasting conflict scenarios between the efficiency of photovoltaic production, agricultural uses and biodiversity by using a sensitivity analysis of hotspots and coldspots of conflict. Our results showed that a low efficiency scenario was the one that reduced the incidence of conflicts the most, but also the one that required slightly larger areas that are also more expensive to reach an exploitation target. We consider that the conflict analysis provides a guarantee of the areas suitable for photovoltaic projects in scenarios of low conflict with land uses and conservation interests and it contributes to the sustainable development of society, since it identifies the conflicts generated by the most important productive activities such as the provision of basic services as energy and food. We emphasize this work does not indicate all the areas of opportunities for the installation of photovoltaics, since this work focused on analyzing two extreme scenarios, it is necessary to evaluate new scenarios considering the complexity of the trade-offs.
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: Esteban Gómez Londoño, "Conflicts and opportunities for the development of photovoltaic solar energy in a context of biodiversity conservation and maintenance of agricultural land uses in Catalonia", Cataluña (España):-, 2021. Consultado en línea en la Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá (https://www.bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co/resources/3711469/), el día 2025-05-03.

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