Analysis of Energy Consumption Policy Criteria based on Ethical Notions in the Developing Countries
Keywords:
Energy policy making, Intergenerational justice, SustainabilityAbstract
Energy plays an important role in the development of societies.
Policy makers enact policies intended to increase the security of energy
supply and consumption. However, in most cases the ethical issues of
the policies are not considered during the process of policy making and
their implementations. This article is one of the first which considers the
energy policies and their ethical notions in developing countries. The
focus is to determine and prioritize energy consumption policy criteria
in order to achieve intergenerational justice in the selected case study,
Iran. The interesting results show that the sustainability relative values
gained the most priority among the other criteria. Indeed, despite differ-
ent policy encouragement packages for other energy sources, renewable
energy is the best alternative from ethical notions
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