Measuring carbon dioxide emission performance in Chinese provinces: A parametric approach

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages 324-330

  Wang, Q W ^a,b   Zhou, P ^b   Shen, N ^a   Wang, S S ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Directional distance function; Emission performance; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE FUNCTION; EMISSION PERFORMANCE; EMISSION REDUCTION; EMISSION REDUCTION POTENTIALS; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; REGULATORY POLICIES; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84873626762     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.12.061     Document Type: Review

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