Dealing with heterogeneity and complexity in the analysis of the willingness to invest in community renewable energy in rural areas

• Published in: Technological forecasting & social change Vol. 173; p. 121165
• Main Authors: Romero-Castro, Noelia, Piñeiro-Chousa, Juan, Pérez-Pico, Ada
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 01.12.2021; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Alternative energy sources; Bounded rationality; Cognition; Community renewable energy; Comparative analysis; Complexity; Decision analysis; Decisions; Energy development; Energy policy; fsQCA; Fuzzy sets; Heterogeneity; Policy making; Qualitative analysis; Quantitative analysis; Renewable energy; Renewable resources; Research design; Rural areas; Rural development; Sustainable development; Villages; Willingness to invest; fsQCA; Rural development; Community renewable energy; Bounded rationality; Willingness to invest

•Willingness to invest in rural community renewable energy (CRE) projects is subject to heterogeneity and complexity.•Alternative causal recipes of sociodemographic features of potential CRE investors can be related to alternative sociopsychological, financial, and willingness to invest outcomes.•Al...