Reflections - Energy efficiency policy: Pipe dream or pipeline to the future?

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 304-320

  Tietenberg, Tom ^a  

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; INVESTMENT; PIPELINE;

EID: 67949109658     PISSN: 17506816     EISSN: 17506824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reep/rep004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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