The fuelwood consumption in a rural area of Greece

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 6489-6496

  Arabatzis, Garyfallos ^a   Kitikidou, Kyriaki ^a   Tampakis, Stilianos ^a   Soutsas, Konstantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Consumption; Fuelwood; Greece; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; NATURAL RESOURCES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WOOD PRODUCTS;

CONSUMPTION; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION; FUELWOOD; GREECE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

RURAL AREAS;

CONSUMPTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY; FUEL WOOD; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NATURAL RESOURCES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCES; TRANSPORT; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 84866657747     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.07.010     Document Type: Review

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