Understanding carbon lock-in

Energy Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 817-830

  Unruh, Gregory C ^a  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Institutional evolution; Technological lock in

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CARBON-SAVING TECHNOLOGIES;

ENERGY POLICY;

ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY USE; FOSSIL FUEL; RETURNS TO SCALE;

EID: 0034308076     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(00)00070-7     Document Type: Article

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