Globalizing carbon lock-in

Energy Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1185-1197

  Unruh, Gregory C ^a   Carrillo Hermosilla, Javier ^a  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon lock in; Developing economies; Leapfrogging

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY POLICY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CARBON LOCK-IN; DEVELOPING ECONOMIES; LEAPFROGGING;

CARBON;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION;

EID: 32644473675     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2004.10.013     Document Type: Article

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