The many traps of green technology promotion

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-91

  Bréchet, Thierry ^a   Ly, Sylvette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clean technology; Eco efficiency; Environmental performance; Technological greening

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873522878     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10018-012-0035-5     Document Type: Article

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