Community acceptance of large-scale solar energy installations in developing countries: Evidence from Morocco

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 14, Issue , 2016, Pages 80-89

  Hanger, Susanne ^a,b   Komendantova, Nadejda ^a,b   Schinke, Boris ^c   Zejli, Driss ^d,e   Ihlal, Ahmed ^f   Patt, Anthony ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c Germanwatch eV DrWerner Schuster Haus   (Germany)

^d Moroccan Society for the Development of Renewable Energy (SMADER)   (Morocco)

^e IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^f FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Climate change mitigation; Community acceptance; Concentrated solar power; Middle East; North Africa; Public acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957968087     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2016.01.010     Document Type: Article

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