A (new) cultural turn toward solar cooking - Evidence from six case studies across India and Burkina Faso

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 49-58

  Otte, Pia Piroschka ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Culture; India; Solar cooking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904679866     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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