气候行动是否会带来和平? 使用全球投资数据评估可再生能源的地缘政治
Juergen Braunstein1, Andreas C Goldthau2,3, Konstantin Veit4
1Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Vienna, Austria.
概括
可再生能源投资似乎没有促进和平或民主统治. 与流行的理论相反,集中可再生能源投资,而不是分散的系统,可能会增加稳定性和人类发展.
科学领域:
- 国际政治经济学国际政治经济学
- 气候行动 气候行动
- 和平研究 和平研究
背景情况:
- 过渡到可再生能源对于气候行动至关重要.
- 国际政治经济 (IPE) 文献讨论了可再生能源在加强国际和平方面的潜力.
- 现有的理论将可再生能源与通过能源民主,资本主义和平和人类安全来实现和平联系起来.
研究的目的:
- 实证测试可再生能源增强国际和平的假设.
- 开发和测试关于可再生能源和平效应的假设.
- 分析将可再生能源与和平联系起来的因果机制.
主要方法:
- 利用全球可再生能源投资的纵向数据集.
- 采用计量经济学测试来分析可再生能源与和平指标之间的关系.
- 研究了分布式和集中式可再生能源投资模式的影响.
主要成果:
- 分布式可再生能源系统没有促进民主统治或显著影响人类发展.
- 较高的可再生能源投资度与增加的稳定性和人类发展有关.
- 没有证据支持"通过繁荣实现和平"的论点或更广泛的假设,即可再生能源本质上带来和平.
结论:
- 该研究发现,可再生能源增强国际和平或民主统治的假设没有得到支持.
- 集中可再生能源投资,而不是去中心化系统,与稳定和发展有积极的相关性.
- 需要进一步的实证研究来理解可再生能源与全球稳定之间的复杂关系.
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