Solar cooking in Senegalese villages: An application of best-worst scaling

Energy Policy

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 447-458

  Vanschoenwinkel, Janka ^a   Lizin, Sebastien ^a   Swinnen, Gilbert ^a   Azadi, Hossein ^b   Van Passel, Steven ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Best worst scaling; Nontraditional cookstoves; Product specific preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893869329     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.12.038     Document Type: Article

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