Social and political impacts of renewable energy: Literature review

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 108, Issue , 2016, Pages 102-110

  Sheikh, Nasir J ^a   Kocaoglu, Dundar F ^b   Lutzenhiser, Loren ^c  

^a State University of New York   (South Korea)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

DECISION MAKERS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; POLICY MAKERS; POLITICAL IMPACT; POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; RESEARCH INSTITUTES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84971290237     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.04.022     Document Type: Review

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