Assessing rural energy sustainability in developing countries

Energy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-28

  Mainali, Brijesh ^a,b   Pachauri, Shonali ^b   Rao, Narasimha D ^b   Silveira, Semida ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Indicators; Principal component analysis; Rural household energy; Sustainability index

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPOSITE INDICATORS; ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY; GLOBAL CHALLENGES; RURAL ELECTRICITIES; RURAL HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; SOCIAL INDICATORS; SUSTAINABILITY INDEX; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DEVELOPING WORLD; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL ENERGY; SUSTAINABILITY;

BANGLADESH; CHINA; GHANA; INDIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84894314514     PISSN: 09730826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2014.01.008     Document Type: Article

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