Valuing the manufacturing externalities of wind energy: assessing the environmental profit and loss of wind turbines in Northern Europe

Wind Energy

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1623-1647

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a,b   Munoz Perea, Mario Alberto ^a   Matamoros, Alfredo Villa ^a   Enevoldsen, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

environmental profit and loss; externalities; wind energy; wind turbines

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COPYRIGHTS; FOUNDATIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREEN MANUFACTURING; LIFE CYCLE; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PROFITABILITY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CONCRETE FOUNDATION; CONSTRUCTION COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE; EXTERNALITIES; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; PROFIT AND LOSS;

CONCRETES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; COST ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOUNDATION; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

CHINA; DENMARK; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84949024380     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1941     Document Type: Article

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