Local acceptance of existing biogas plants in Switzerland

Energy Policy

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 802-810

  Soland, Martin ^a   Steimer, Nora ^a   Walter, Götz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b The Advisory House   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogas; Justice; Local acceptance

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS POWER PLANT; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; JUSTICE; LOCAL ACCEPTANCE; PERCEIVED BENEFITS; RENEWABLE ENERGY POWER; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

BIOGAS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BIOGAS; ENERGY USE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84881660503     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.111     Document Type: Article

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