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

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  • Grant Allan
  • Peter McGregor
  • Kim Swales

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Greening regional development: employment in low-carbon and renewable energy activities. Regional Studies. 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. It 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.

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  • Grant Allan & Peter McGregor & Kim Swales, 2017. "Greening regional development: employment in low-carbon and renewable energy activities," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(8), pages 1270-1280, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:51:y:2017:i:8:p:1270-1280
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1205184
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    1. Grant Allan & Kevin Connolly & Peter McGregor & Andrew G Ross, 2019. "Economic activity supported by offshore wind: a hypothetical extraction study," Working Papers 1911, University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics.
    2. Cong Khai Dinh & Quang Thanh Ngo & Trung Thanh Nguyen, 2021. "Medium- and High-Tech Export and Renewable Energy Consumption: Non-Linear Evidence from the ASEAN Countries," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-16, July.
    3. Grant Allan & Christos Barkoumas & Andrew Ross & Ashank Sinha, 2020. "Success in sectoral export promotion and economic and environmental indicators: a multisectoral modelling analysis for the UK," Working Papers 2008, University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics.
    4. Allan, Grant J. & Ross, Andrew G., 2019. "The characteristics of energy employment in a system-wide context," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 238-258.

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