Empowered? Evaluating Japan's national energy strategy under the DPJ administration

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1865-1876

  Valentine, Scott ^a   Sovacool, Benjamin K ^b   Matsuura, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Climate change; Japan; Public perception

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY; CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC CHALLENGES; EMISSION REDUCTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; ENERGY STRATEGY; JAPAN; LOW-CARBON; NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION; PUBLIC PERCEPTION; REDUCTION TARGETS; SOLAR PANELS; STAKEHOLDER GROUPS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; WIND POWER;

SOLAR ENERGY;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; STAKEHOLDER;

JAPAN;

EID: 79952073475     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.01.029     Document Type: Article

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