Awareness and acceptability of companies on market-based instruments for energy saving: A survey study in Taicang, China

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 231-241

  Liu, Xianbing ^a   Niu, Dongjie ^b   Bao, Cunkuan ^b   Suk, Sunhee ^a   Sudo, Kinichi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Awareness; China; Market based instrument; Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); Taicang

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABILITY; AWARENESS; CHINA; MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TAICANG;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INSTRUMENTS; SURVEYS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84867583286     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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