Awareness and acceptability of Chinese companies on market-based instruments for energy saving: A survey analysis by sectors

Energy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 228-239

  Liu, Xianbing ^a   Wang, Can ^b   Zhang, Weishi ^b   Suk, Sunhee ^a   Sudo, Kinichi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Awareness; China; Company; Market based instruments

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INDUSTRY; SURVEYS;

ACCEPTABILITY; AWARENESS; CHINA; CHINESE COMPANIES; ECONOMIC PRESSURES; INDUSTRIAL ENERGY; INTERNAL EFFORTS; MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION;

CHINA;

EID: 84877670431     PISSN: 09730826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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