Not in my backyard, but not far away from me: Local acceptance of wind power in China

Energy

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 722-733

  Guo, Yue ^a,b   Ru, Peng ^b   Su, Jun ^b   Anadon, Laura Diaz ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Local acceptance; NIMBYism; Wind power

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS; LOCAL ACCEPTANCE; NIMBYISM; NOT IN MY BACKYARDS; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; WIND ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; WIND POWER IN CHINAS;

WIND POWER;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; INNOVATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WIND POWER;

CHINA; GANSU; JIUQUAN;

EID: 84926157306     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.01.082     Document Type: Article

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