Renewable Energy and Green Economy as a Support to Rural Areas

Roljević, Svetlana and Vuković, Predrag (2012) Renewable Energy and Green Economy as a Support to Rural Areas. In: International Scientific Meeting Sustainable agriculture and rural development in terms of the Republic of Serbia strategic goals realization within the Danube region. Institute of agricultural economics, Belgrade, pp. 645-662. ISBN 978-86-6269-018-0

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Abstract

Green economic development is based on the definition of national resources and identifies the most appropriate sectors of the state economy on its path to achieve sustainable development. As a realistic and promising way to achieve green economic growth in rural areas this paper highlights the use of renewable energy and agricultural biomass. The potential for farming and manufacturing, as the major source of agricultural biomass for the period 2001-2010 is analyzed, covering the Metropolitan area of the Belgrade-Novi Sad, which for this survey includes 11 municipalities. It was found that the most realistic source of agricultural biomass according to the current seeding structure, lays in the production of cereals, industrial crops and fruit. Appropriate use of these resources could attract new investments in rural areas, labor employment, less dependency on the national energy networks and revenue diversification on farms.

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