Willingness to pay for green power in an unreliable electricity sector: Part 1. The case of the Lebanese residential sector
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- Dagher, Leila & harajli, hassan, 2014. "Willingness to pay for green power in an unreliable electricity sector: Part 1. The case of the Lebanese residential sector," MPRA Paper 116121, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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Green power; Willingness-to-pay; Renewable energy; Lebanon;All these keywords.
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- Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
- Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
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