Enhancing China's energy security: Determining influential factors and effective strategic measures

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 589-597

  Ren, Jingzheng ^a,b   Sovacool, Benjamin K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c VERMONT LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy security; Fuzzy AHP; Strategic measure

Indexed keywords

FUZZY AHP; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; STRATEGIC MEASURE;

ENERGY SECURITY;

EID: 84907854172     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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