Reduce growth rate of light-duty vehicle travel to meet 2050 global climate goals

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Sager, Jalel ^a   Apte, Joshua S ^a   Lemoine, Derek M ^a,b   Kammen, Daniel M ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

sustainability; transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960353394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024018     Document Type: Article

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