Per capita CO2 emission trends among European OECD countries

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1865-1871

  Vargas Vargas, Manuel ^a   Mondéjar Jiménez, José ^b   Montero Lorenzo, José María ^c   Fernández Avilés, Gema ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b Faculty of Social Sciences of Cuenca   (Spain)

^c Faculty of Social Sciences and Law   (Spain)

Author keywords

CO2; Economic growth; Emissions; Energy intensity; Europe; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855431251     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2011.250     Document Type: Article

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