Rich enough to go renewable, but too early to leave fossil energy?

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 1465-1477

  Menegaki, Angeliki N ^a   Tsagarakis, Konstantinos P ^b  

^a Department of Water Resources Management   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arellano Bond Bover estimator; Coal; Crude oil; Environmental; Gas; Kuznets curve; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

COAL; ECONOMICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARELLANO-BOND-BOVER ESTIMATOR; ENERGY; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENERGY-CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNET'S CURVE; FOSSIL ENERGY; INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY; KUZNET CURVE; RENEWABLE ENERGIES;

CRUDE OIL;

EID: 84908278587     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.09.038     Document Type: Review

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