Concurrent and legacy economic and environmental impacts from establishing a marine energy sector in Scotland

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2734-2753

  Allan, Grant J ^a   Bryden, Ian ^b   McGregor, Peter G ^a,c   Stallard, Tim ^d   Kim Swales, J ^a,c   Turner, Karen ^a   Wallace, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium; Economic impacts; Wave energy

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; WAVE POWER;

COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; MARINE ENERGY;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; UTILITY SECTOR; WAVE POWER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649130650     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.02.020     Document Type: Article

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