Energy; Energy policy; Fossil fuel; Policymaking; Quantitative analysis; Renewable energy development; Geography, Planning and Development; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Environmental Science (miscellaneous); Energy Engineering and Power Technology; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Abstract :
[en] Renewable energy (RE) policies can play an effective role in the development of renewable resources. The main goal of this paper was to conduct a content analysis on RE development policies in Iran’s five-year National Development Plan (NDP) by investigating upstream national documents. To achieve the goal, 29 upstream documents related to RE were identified and analyzed through a systematic literature review. Then, a qualitative content analysis was applied to analyze the documents. The results showed that Iran’s current RE policies need to be reviewed, reformed, and strengthened. For example, lack of sufficient attention to renewable heat and fuel was one of the deficiencies of RE policies in Iran’s five-year NDP. The decentralization of policymaking in the unified organization was also one of the weaknesses in the policymaking process of the RE. Iran can develop sustainable and clean RE policies by using sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, wave, and tidal power. The paper concludes that, although RE policies have the potential for development in Iran due to environmental, social, and economic advantages, they could face some infrastructural, managerial, socio-cultural, and economic challenges. Accordingly, effective and innovative policymaking is required to meet such challenges.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Dehhaghi, Somayeh; Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Choobchian, Shahla ; Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Ghobadian, Barat; Department of Mechanics of Biosystems Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Farhadian, Homayon; Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Viira, Ants-Hannes; Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Stefanie, Horatiu Ioan; Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Van Passel, Steven ; Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Azadi, Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre > Modélisation et développement ; Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Language :
English
Title :
Five-Year Development Plans of Renewable Energy Policies in Iran: A Content Analysis
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