Valuing the environmental impacts of electricity production: A critical review of some "first-generation" studies

Energy Sources

Volumn 20, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 267-300

  Stirling, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Electricity supply technologies; Environmental impacts; Environmental valuation; Technology assessment

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0032063694     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908319808970062     Document Type: Article

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