Technological change and uncertainty in environmental economics

Energy Economics

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Böhringer, Christoph ^a   Mennel, Tim P ^b   Rutherford, Tom F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental economics; Technical change; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649404565     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2009.05.006     Document Type: Editorial

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