Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France
International policies promote renewable forms of energy to mitigate climate change. In Europe, the production of electricity using wood biomass represents one of the most popular energy alternatives. In 2012, France initiated a large-scale strategy to develop wood biomass energy. The biggest wood b...
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| description | International policies promote renewable forms of energy to mitigate climate change. In Europe, the production of electricity using wood biomass represents one of the most popular energy alternatives. In 2012, France initiated a large-scale strategy to develop wood biomass energy. The biggest wood biomass power-plant project has been developed in the French Mediterranean area and its huge size raises several issues for the short- and long-term sustainability of local forests and associated economic sectors. The French Mediterranean forests provide four types of economic goods (private, club, common, and public goods) and multiple ecosystem services, which makes them complex to manage under an energy transition policy. In this paper, we applied three qualitative methods, namely interviews, participative workshops, and observant participation, and three conceptual models, namely (i) Ostrom’s (2010) self-organization key conditions, (ii) the types of economic goods classified according to their excludability and rivalry properties, and (iii) the ecosystem service categorization system of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005). With our methods, we show that the renewable strategy chosen in France replicates the current centralized production model based on fossil and nuclear fuels. Thus, we demonstrate that European, national, and local authorities fail to consider the multiple ecosystem services that forest management strategies should include to face the energy transition, climate change, and the other ecological challenges of the 21st century. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e75f8b2a81334f1394c60a09bec21c8f2023-11-22T13:06:39ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072021-08-01129113910.3390/f12091139Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in FranceRoxane Sansilvestri0Mateo Cordier1Thibault Lescuyer2Ecologie-Systématique-Evolution Lab (UMR 8079), Université Paris Saclay, 91400 Orsay, FranceCultures-Environnements-Arctique-Représentations-Climat Lab (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 78280 Guyancourt, FranceCultures-Environnements-Arctique-Représentations-Climat Lab (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 78280 Guyancourt, FranceInternational policies promote renewable forms of energy to mitigate climate change. In Europe, the production of electricity using wood biomass represents one of the most popular energy alternatives. In 2012, France initiated a large-scale strategy to develop wood biomass energy. The biggest wood biomass power-plant project has been developed in the French Mediterranean area and its huge size raises several issues for the short- and long-term sustainability of local forests and associated economic sectors. The French Mediterranean forests provide four types of economic goods (private, club, common, and public goods) and multiple ecosystem services, which makes them complex to manage under an energy transition policy. In this paper, we applied three qualitative methods, namely interviews, participative workshops, and observant participation, and three conceptual models, namely (i) Ostrom’s (2010) self-organization key conditions, (ii) the types of economic goods classified according to their excludability and rivalry properties, and (iii) the ecosystem service categorization system of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005). With our methods, we show that the renewable strategy chosen in France replicates the current centralized production model based on fossil and nuclear fuels. Thus, we demonstrate that European, national, and local authorities fail to consider the multiple ecosystem services that forest management strategies should include to face the energy transition, climate change, and the other ecological challenges of the 21st century.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1139common-pool resource managementlocal vs. globaleconomic oligopolypanacea paradigmrenewable energysectoral organization |
| spellingShingle | Roxane Sansilvestri Mateo Cordier Thibault Lescuyer Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France Forests common-pool resource management local vs. global economic oligopoly panacea paradigm renewable energy sectoral organization |
| title | Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France |
| title_full | Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France |
| title_fullStr | Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France |
| title_full_unstemmed | Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France |
| title_short | Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France |
| title_sort | winners and losers in energy transition study case of wood biomass power plants implementation in france |
| topic | common-pool resource management local vs. global economic oligopoly panacea paradigm renewable energy sectoral organization |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1139 |
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