Perception of the socio-environmental impacts caused by wind generators in the state of Piauí, Northeast of Brazil

Authors

  • Rômulo Diniz Araújo Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Professor, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará, Juazeiro do Norte, CE, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3346-5336
  • Adryane Gorayeb PhD in Geography, Associate Professor III, Head of the Geography Department, Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7304-8836

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v14n3.2023.50457

Keywords:

Social impacts, Wind energy , Procedural justice , Distributive justice , Perception

Abstract

The expansion of wind energy in Brazil has brought benefits, but many conflicts have arisen around rural communities. The research involved understanding the community's responses regarding the acceptance or rejection of wind farms in the Serra dos Pereiros community in Piauí from the procedural and distributive justice view. A questionnaire with ten answers was applied, which added together 31 variables. In statical analyses, with a population sample of 69 people, the Likert scale, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and Spearman's correlation coefficient (rs) were used. From the results, 5 responses presented moderate positive or strongly positive correlations: change in the landscape, opinion about wind farms, political process for implementing wind farms, fairness of the process, and compensation. The data show that the development of policies that do not include the direct participation of society generates conflicts between the different institutional levels and significant local environmental and social problems.

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Author Biographies

Rômulo Diniz Araújo, Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Professor, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará, Juazeiro do Norte, CE, Brazil

Rômulo Diniz holds a Technological degree in Electromechanics from the Instituto Centro de Ensino Tecnológico - CENTEC (2004), Undergraduate degree in Physics from the Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC (2014). Postgraduate degree in Occupational Safety Management from the Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas Dr. Leão Sampaio - FALS (2010), Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC (2012); PhD candidate in Geography from the Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC (2020 - atual). He is a professor at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará - IFCE, Juazeiro do Norte, and has experience in the area of Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on Electrical Machines, Electrical Drives and Electrical Power Systems.

Adryane Gorayeb, PhD in Geography, Associate Professor III, Head of the Geography Department, Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Associate Professor III and Head of the Geography Department at the Universidade Federal do Ceará and coordinator of the Geoprocessing and Social Cartography Laboratory (Labocart) of the Geography Department at UFC. She supervises Master's and Doctoral studies on the topics of participatory mapping, social cartography and socio-environmental impacts of wind energy. In 2016, she completed a Post-Doctorate in Geography at Texas A & M University / USA on Renewable Energy with a CNPq scholarship and currently leads the Wind Energy Observatory (http://www.observatoriodaenergiaeolica.ufc.br/).

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2023-12-11

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Araújo, R. D., & Gorayeb, A. (2023). Perception of the socio-environmental impacts caused by wind generators in the state of Piauí, Northeast of Brazil. Sustainability in Debate, 14(3), 52–87. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v14n3.2023.50457

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