Australian economic models of greenhouse abatement

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Diesendorf, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

'Top down' models; Efficient energy use; Energy services; Energy economy models; Greenhouse response; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039400374     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1462-9011(98)00002-1     Document Type: Article

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