The impact of lifestyle and attitudes on residential firewood demand in Norway

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-21

  Lillemo, Shuling Chen ^a   Halvorsen, Bente ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Heating energy; Household firewood demand; Lifestyle; Zero inflated model

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDES; HEATING ENERGY; HOUSEHOLD FIREWOOD DEMAND; LIFESTYLE; ZERO-INFLATED MODELS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; SURVEYS;

HEATING;

DATA SET; DEMAND ANALYSIS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

NORWAY;

EID: 84887021775     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.01.024     Document Type: Article

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