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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112160
	Linking social-psychological factors with policy expectation: Using local voices to understand solar PV poverty alleviation in Wuhan, China
	Chen C.-F.; Li J.; Shuai J.; Nelson H.; Walzem A.; Cheng J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	151
英文摘要	The Chinese government has established a photovoltaics poverty alleviation (PVPA) program to help reduce rural poverty and environmental inequality. However, there is a scarcity of detailed investigations into how social-psychological factors influence the rural poor's decision to adopt solar photovoltaics. The present study examines the local voices of low-income villagers in the Wuhan region towards the PVPA projects from a social-psychological perspective. While focusing on local villagers' opinions before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, our findings suggest that villagers' neighbors have the greatest influence on those who subequently adopt solar PV. Similarly, village agents play a crucial role in spreading information and creating a sense of trust, which is different than other countries' solar adoption. The common goals of improving the local community aesthetically, environmentally, and economically also increased villagers' adoption likelihood. These improvements boosted villagers' sense of pride, which, in a virtuous cycle, further encouraged participation in improving the community. Residents' fears were reduced through local social interactions which increased knowledge, such as village-wide technology demonstrations, conversations with local adopters, and town hall discussions with village leaders. However, --- the PVPA projects and skepticism about when or if they would receive promised government subsidies prevented many from adopting. These findings provide valuable implications for policymakers in China and other developing countries who wish to encourage renewable energy adoption after the pandemic. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Poor households Poverty alleviation Renewable energy Rural China Solar PV
英文关键词	Developing countries; Chinese Government; Government subsidies; Local community; Poverty alleviation; Psychological factors; Renewable energies; Social interactions; Solar photovoltaics; Rural areas; alternative energy; energy policy; household energy; photovoltaic system; policy implementation; poverty alleviation; renewable resource; rural energy; solar power; China; Hubei; Wuhan
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205046
作者单位	NSF Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electrical Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States; School of Economics and Management, Research Center of Resource and Environmental Economics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, China; Department of International Liberal Arts, International Studies, Hokkaido Bunkyo University, Japan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen C.-F.,Li J.,Shuai J.,et al. Linking social-psychological factors with policy expectation: Using local voices to understand solar PV poverty alleviation in Wuhan, China[J],2021,151.
APA	Chen C.-F.,Li J.,Shuai J.,Nelson H.,Walzem A.,&Cheng J..(2021).Linking social-psychological factors with policy expectation: Using local voices to understand solar PV poverty alleviation in Wuhan, China.Energy Policy,151.
MLA	Chen C.-F.,et al."Linking social-psychological factors with policy expectation: Using local voices to understand solar PV poverty alleviation in Wuhan, China".Energy Policy 151(2021).