Informing the US Energy Policy Debate with Threshold 21

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 396-410

  Bassi, Andrea M ^a,b   Shilling, John D ^a  

^a Millennium Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dynamic modeling; Energy policy; Integrated modeling; Threshold 21

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CHALLENGES; DECISION MAKERS; DYNAMIC MODELING; ENERGY AVAILABILITY; INTEGRATED MODELING; MODEL RESULTS; NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PRICE FLUCTUATION; RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; SIMULATION MODEL; TRANSPARENT TOOLS; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES; US ENERGY POLICY;

ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENERGY POLICY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS; SIMULATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 75849132383     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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