Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China

Energy and Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 1347-1372

  Wang, Can ^a   Lin, Jie ^a   Cai, Wenjia ^a   Zhang, Zhongxiang ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Low carbon city; Market based instruments; Policies; Practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892996251     PISSN: 0958305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0958-305X.24.7-8.1347     Document Type: Article

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