Power Ahead: Meeting Ethiopia's Energy Needs Under a Changing Climate

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 476-488

  Block, Paul ^a,b   Strzepek, Kenneth ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENERGY PLANNING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; VULNERABILITY;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84863991513     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2012.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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