Growth Rates of Global Energy Systems and Future Outlooks

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-41

  Höök, Mikael ^a   Li, Junchen ^b   Johansson, Kersti ^a   Snowden, Simon ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

energy forecasting; evaluating forecasts; global energy systems; growth rates; long term forecasting; scenarios

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856392281     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11053-011-9162-0     Document Type: Review

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