Renewable energy can enhance resilience of small islands

This paper summarizes some of the ways in which increased use of renewable energy can reduce vulnerability of nations and communities to hydro-meteorological disasters (i.e. enhance their resilience). It uses examples mainly from the small island countries of the Pacific, as the issues raised are pa...

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Autores principales: Weir, Tony, Kumar, Mahendra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2020
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7471483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32901174
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04266-4
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spelling pubmed-74714832020-09-04 Renewable energy can enhance resilience of small islands Weir, Tony Kumar, Mahendra Nat Hazards (Dordr) Research Letter This paper summarizes some of the ways in which increased use of renewable energy can reduce vulnerability of nations and communities to hydro-meteorological disasters (i.e. enhance their resilience). It uses examples mainly from the small island countries of the Pacific, as the issues raised are particularly pertinent there. In particular, distributed electricity generation reduces vulnerability of supply to severe weather. Springer Netherlands 2020-09-03 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7471483/ /pubmed/32901174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04266-4 Text en © Springer Nature B.V. 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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