London and beyond: Taking a closer look at urban energy policy

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4870-4879

  Keirstead, James ^a   Schulz, Niels B ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cities; Climate change; Governance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

BENEFITS AND COSTS; CITIES; GLOBAL POLICIES; GOVERNANCE; PRIMARY ENERGY CONSUMPTION; RESEARCH AGENDA; UNIQUE FEATURES; URBAN ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

ENERGY POLICY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER; URBAN POLICY;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77956418313     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.07.025     Document Type: Article

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