Environmental externalities, market distortions and the economics of renewable energy technologies

Energy Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 127-156

  Owen, Anthony D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE; MARKETING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

ECONOMIC VIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES; MARKET DISTORTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 4344617352     PISSN: 01956574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol25-No3-7     Document Type: Article

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