Examining wind energy deployment pathways in complex macro-economic and political settings using a fuzzy cognitive map-based method

Long-term sustainable wind energy deployment faces an array of challenges due to various complex interconnected impediment factors. These inherent endogenous and exogenous uncertainties preclude obtaining an accurate future trend, which in turn complicates the design of the good policy. This study employs Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) to semi-quantitatively explore the scenarios of wind energy deployment in Iran. The FCM-based framework was built...