Assessing the equity of carbon mitigation policies for transport in Scotland

Case Studies on Transport Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 70-80

  Lucas, Karen ^a   Pangbourne, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon mitigation; Scotland; Social equity assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905747335     PISSN: 2213624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cstp.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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