Greening regional development: employment in low-carbon and renewable energy activities

Grant Allan; Peter McGregor; Kim Swales

doi:10.1080/00343404.2016.1205184

Greening regional development: employment in low-carbon and renewable energy activities

Grant Allan, Peter McGregor, Kim Swales

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Abstract

The promotion of low carbon and renewable energy (LC+RE) activities has become an important element of development policy in many regional economies. In practice, defining and measuring these activities presents conceptual, methodological, and operational challenges. This paper illustrates these difficulties using three recent estimates of LC+RE jobs for Scotland. The paper proposes that information on the LC+RE sector should be embedded in a set of Input-Output accounts. This would facilitate the planning, implementation and monitoring of LC+RE based regional development policy.

Language	English
Pages	1270-1280
Number of pages	11
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	51
Issue number	8
Early online date	2 Aug 2016
DOIs	10.1080/00343404.2016.1205184
Publication status	Published - 30 Jul 2017

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Allan, G., McGregor, P., & Swales, K. (2017). Greening regional development: employment in low-carbon and renewable energy activities. Regional Studies, 51(8), 1270-1280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1205184

Allan, Grant ; McGregor, Peter ; Swales, Kim. / Greening regional development : employment in low-carbon and renewable energy activities. In: Regional Studies. 2017 ; Vol. 51, No. 8. pp. 1270-1280.

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