Scenarios for greenhouse gas emission mitigation: a review of modeling of strategies and policies in integrated assessment models

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 267-289

  Rana, Ashish ^a   Morita, Tsuneyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Emissions; Greenhouse gases; Integrated assessment models; Mitigation scenarios

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249087085     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03354041     Document Type: Article

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