2023 Volume 46 Issue 1 Pages 29-36
In recent years, there have been conflicts with local residents in Japan over issues such as landscape and disaster risk caused by the construction of solar-PV facilities. In order to promote the suitable installation of solar-PV facilities in the future, it is necessary to clarify resident attitudes toward such facilities, not only in the planning stage but also in operation. In this research, a questionnaire survey was conducted among local residents living near a solar-PV facility in operation (that had had conflicts in the planning stage) at Mt. Tsukuba, in Tsukuba city. In addition, a model of resident attitude formation toward the facility was constructed and its determinants were clarified. As a result, it was found that the felt annoyance due to landscape change had a statistically significant relationship with the negative attitude to the project. Moreover, it was also demonstrated that the installation in Mt. Tsukuba was a significant correlated factor with the felt annoyance due to landscape change. The analysis confirms that it is important to avoid installation in mountainous forests of special value to residents, such as Mt. Tsukuba, in order to improve the acceptance from local communities toward solar-PV projects.
