China's Capacities for Mitigating Climate Change

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 308-324

  Richerzhagen, Carmen ^a   Scholz, Imme ^a  

^a GERMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

capacity development; China; climate change; energy policy; environment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC REFORM; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLITICAL REFORM; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 38349006984     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

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