The levels of awareness about the renewable energy sources of university students in Turkey

Renewable Energy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 174-179

  Karatepe, Yelda ^a   Neşe, Seçil Varbak ^a   Keçebaş, Ali ^b   Yumurtaci, Mehmet ^b  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Awareness; Energy education; Energy sources; Renewable energy; University

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; ENERGY SOURCE; FUTURE GENERATIONS; IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY EDUCATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TURKISHS; UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

FOSSIL FUELS; NATURAL RESOURCES; PROVEN RESERVES; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; FOSSIL FUEL; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

TURKEY;

EID: 84858282961     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.099     Document Type: Article

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