The leverage of demographic dynamics on carbon dioxide emissions: Does age structure matter?

Demography

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 371-399

  Zagheni, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Input output models; IPAT; Population age structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953701625     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-010-0004-1     Document Type: Article

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