Renewable energies and rural areas: inequality and democracy Authors Josep Puig-Boix European Association for Renewable Energy (EUROSOLAR) Keywords: renewable energy, rural world, energy democracy, extractive economy, cooperative economy, distributed energy, decentralized energy, rights and responsibilities. Abstract Taking as a starting point what was argued in a 1985 publication on renewable energy and rural areas, the question is raised about the role to be played by rural areas and the people who live and work there in the supply of energy for both their own and outside needs, based in this case on equitable and fair relations of exchange, leaving behind the extractivist worldview to adopt a mutual, cooperative approach. To achieve this aim, this paper proposes that efforts should be made to allow the democratization of energy systems, setting forth the principles which, in the author’s opinion, should form the basis of the energy democracy, and the role that should be played in this respect by decentralized or distributed energy systems in conjunction with the emerging new basic rights and responsibilities in the field of energy.Keywords: renewable energy, rural world, energy democracy, extractive economy, cooperative economy, distributed energy, decentralized energy, rights and responsibilities. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 39: desembre 2015 Section Agroforum License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal QUADERNS AGRARIS, authors accept the following terms: Authors assign to ICEA (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to QUADERNS AGRARIS.Authors answer to ICEA for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.ICEA declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal QUADERNS AGRARIS is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
