Combining choice experiments with psychometric scales to assess the social acceptability of wind energy projects: A latent class approach

Energy Policy

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 334-347

  Strazzera, Elisabetta ^a   Mura, Marina ^a   Contu, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Social acceptability; Wind farms

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; LATENT CLASS; LOCAL ECONOMY; OPTION VALUE; PSYCHOMETRIC VARIABLES; SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY; SPECIFIC SITES; VISUAL IMPACTS; WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT; WIND ENERGY PROJECTS; WIND FARM;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WIND POWER;

EXPERIMENTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; LOCAL ECONOMY; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE-OFF; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

EID: 84865008004     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.05.037     Document Type: Article

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