Exploring the Black Box of Relationship Between Place Attachment and Residential Renewable Energy Technologies - A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Introduction: Place attachment enables people to embrace sustainability discourses and deal with social change and action on renewable energy technologies, often deployed strategically for environmentally friendly consumption behaviors. Despite the growing number of studies examining the influence of place attachment of pro-environmental behaviors and renewable energy technologies, limited studies have explored the effectiveness of place attachment in influencing social acceptance and purchase intention of household renewable energy technologies through a literature synthesis. Thus, there has been no systematic consolidation of the research in place attachment to identify the effectiveness of place attachment established for their role in determining the social acceptance and purchase intention of renewable energy technologies to provide a detailed understanding of how it has evolved over the years to the researcher’s knowledge.

Objectives: This study aims to conduct a structured review and bridge the gap by examining the evolution of effectiveness of place attachment of renewable energy technologies in the last twenty years and offer further promising directions for future research by bibliometric analysis.

Methods: Based on the PRISMA four-stage identification, screening, eligibility, and study inclusion technique, this study explored the usefulness of bibliometric analysis for the analysis of 68 articles.

Results: Through bibliometric analysis, the leading authors, outlets, countries/regions, and articles of healthy aging research were visualized over 15 years (2010-2024). It provides a comprehensive overview of the effectiveness of place attachment in renewable energy technology research, demonstrates intellectual advances in the field, and detects promising research directions in the future.

Conclusions: The findings of the study identify influential authors, articles, and journals over 15 years (2010-2024), illustrate the intellectual structure of the literature, and better understanding the important of place attachment on renewable energy technology which provide an opportunity to improve energy promotion and transformation around the world to reduce carbon emissions.