Technology Is Not Enough: Climate Change, Population, Affluence, and Consumption

Journal of Environment and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-27

  Mitchell, Ronald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; economic growth; IPAT equation; population; technological innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857595369     PISSN: 10704965     EISSN: 15525465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1070496511435670     Document Type: Editorial

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