Holidays in lights: Tracking cultural patterns in demand for energy services

Earth's Future

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 182-205

  Román, Miguel O ^a   Stokes, Eleanor C ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate Change Mitigation; Energy Use; Human Dimensions; Remote Sensing

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INNOVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; POWER GENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRACKING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85000819211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014EF000285     Document Type: Article

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