Toward prospective voluntary agreements: reflections from a hydrogen foresight project

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 259-265

  Könnölä, Totti ^a   Unruh, Gregory C ^b   Carrillo Hermosilla, Javier ^c  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Garvin School of International Management   (United States)

^c IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon lock in; Environmental voluntary agreement; Foresight; Hydrogen economy; Increasing returns; Path dependence

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; ECONOMICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FOSSIL FUELS; HYDROGEN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL VOLUNTARY AGREEMENT; PATH DEPENDENCE; PROSPECTIVE VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS (PVA); TECHNO-INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXES (TIC);

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 56949085890     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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