Public acceptance of biofuels

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3482-3488

  Savvanidou, Electra ^a   Zervas, Efthimios ^a   Tsagarakis, Konstantinos P ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Biofuels; Social acceptance

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; CLIMATIC CHANGES; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; ENERGY PROBLEM; ENERGY SAVING; FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW; FUEL MARKETS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE;

BIOETHANOL; ETHANOL; FOSSIL FUELS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

BIODIESEL;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ALTERNATIVE FUEL; BIOFUEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; ETHANOL; FOSSIL FUEL; FUEL CONSUMPTION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

GREECE;

EID: 77952365378     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.021     Document Type: Article

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