Economic viability of biogas and green self-employment opportunities

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue , 2013, Pages 757-766

  Chakrabarty, Sayan ^a,b   Boksh, F I M Muktadir ^c   Chakraborty, Arpita ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^c Research Division Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)   (Bangladesh)

^d Leading University   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Bangladesh; Biogas; Economic viability; Environmental externalities; Green job

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; BANGLADESH; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES; FINANCIAL VIABILITY; GREEN JOB; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; RURAL COMMUNITY;

KEROSENE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BIOGAS;

EID: 84883865112     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.002     Document Type: Review

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