Energy-GDP decoupling in a second best world-a case study on India

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 339-356

  Guivarch, Céline ^a,b   Mathy, Sandrine ^a  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY LIMIT; CAPACITY SHORTAGE; EMISSION SCENARIO; GDP GROWTH; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM; GHG EMISSION; INSURANCE POLICIES; OIL PRICES; POWER CUTS; POWER SECTOR;

ECONOMICS; FOSSIL FUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INSURANCE;

INVESTMENTS;

CARBON EMISSION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; FOSSIL FUEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; MARKET CONDITIONS; POWER GENERATION;

INDIA;

EID: 84862121416     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0354-8     Document Type: Article

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