Promoting Renewable Energy in Longyearbyen: A Sustainable Means to Prevent Svalbard’s Environmental Degradation
This study aims to separately investigate: 1.The political reasons behind Norway‟s controversial decision to encourage a coal enterprise on Svalbard (an archipelago in the Arctic) and, 2.The current and future potential of wind and solar energy as untapped renewable sources, locally exploited throug...
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ftdatacite:10.7916/consilience.v0i6.4555 2023-05-15T15:00:10+02:00 Promoting Renewable Energy in Longyearbyen: A Sustainable Means to Prevent Svalbard’s Environmental Degradation Buonsanti, Fabio 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/consilience.v0i6.4555 https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/consilience/article/view/4555 en eng Consilience Text Article article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.7916/consilience.v0i6.4555 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z This study aims to separately investigate: 1.The political reasons behind Norway‟s controversial decision to encourage a coal enterprise on Svalbard (an archipelago in the Arctic) and, 2.The current and future potential of wind and solar energy as untapped renewable sources, locally exploited through a hybrid wind-PV system. In doing so this preliminary study attempts to provide insights for the implementation of an alternative, sustainable strategy to keep a Norwegian year-round settlement at Longyearbyen, Svalbard, without any recourse to polluting mining operations. Such an eventuality, despite the need for further research, is promisingly described as feasible, environmentally advantageous and politically conceivable. : Consilience, No 6 (2011): Issue Six: 2011 Text Arctic Longyearbyen Svalbard DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Svalbard Longyearbyen Norway |
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This study aims to separately investigate: 1.The political reasons behind Norway‟s controversial decision to encourage a coal enterprise on Svalbard (an archipelago in the Arctic) and, 2.The current and future potential of wind and solar energy as untapped renewable sources, locally exploited through a hybrid wind-PV system. In doing so this preliminary study attempts to provide insights for the implementation of an alternative, sustainable strategy to keep a Norwegian year-round settlement at Longyearbyen, Svalbard, without any recourse to polluting mining operations. Such an eventuality, despite the need for further research, is promisingly described as feasible, environmentally advantageous and politically conceivable. : Consilience, No 6 (2011): Issue Six: 2011 |
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Promoting Renewable Energy in Longyearbyen: A Sustainable Means to Prevent Svalbard’s Environmental Degradation |
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