Energy and its sustainable development for China: Editorial introduction and commentary for the special issue of Energy - The international journal

Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4246-4256

  Jin, Hongguang ^a   Lior, Noam ^b   Zhang, Xiliang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958154409     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2010.08.001     Document Type: Editorial

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