Rural versus urban preferences for renewable energy developments

Ecological Economics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 616-625

  Bergmann, Ariel ^a,c   Colombo, Sergio ^b,c   Hanley, Nick ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Agricultural Economics

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Non market valuation; Renewable energy; Rural development

Indexed keywords

HYDROELECTRIC POWER; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WIND FARM;

EID: 40749102499     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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