Fossil energy versus nuclear, wind, solar and agricultural biomass: Insights from an Italian national survey

Energy Policy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 59-66

  Cicia, Gianni ^a   Cembalo, Luigi ^a   Del Giudice, Teresa ^a   Palladino, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Non market valuation; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL BIOMASS; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; ENERGY SOURCE; FOSSIL ENERGY; GREEN ENERGY; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LATENT CLASS; NON-MARKET VALUATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY GENERATION; POLITICAL DEBATES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; WIND FARM;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY POLICY; EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; RURAL AREAS; SURVEYS; WIND POWER;

SOLAR ENERGY;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BIOMASS POWER; FOSSIL FUEL; NUCLEAR POWER; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; WIND POWER;

ITALY;

EID: 84856272071     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.030     Document Type: Article

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