Environmental standards as a strategy of international technology transfer

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 192-206

  Saikawa, Eri ^a   Urpelainen, Johannes ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental standards; Policy; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE EMISSION STANDARD; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CAR; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EXHAUST GAS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; INVESTMENT; JOINT VENTURE; METHODOLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; TECHNOLOGY; WIND POWER;

EID: 84894312976     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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