Employment impacts of CDM projects in China's power sector

Energy Policy

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 481-491

  Wang, Can ^a   Zhang, Weishi ^a   Cai, Wenjia ^a   Xie, Xi ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Administrative Centre for China's Agenda 21   (China)

Author keywords

Co benefit; Input output model; New and renewable energy

Indexed keywords

CO BENEFITS; HOST COUNTRIES; HYDRO PROJECTS; INPUT OUTPUT MODEL; POWER SECTOR; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR PROJECT;

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); ENERGY POLICY;

EMPLOYMENT;

CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; LABOR SUPPLY; POWER GENERATION; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84879499511     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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