Innovative energy-efficiency policies: An international review

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Brown, Marilyn ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCES;

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; EMERGING ECONOMIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY POLICIES; INDUSTRIAL SECTOR; INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS; MARKET CONDITION; REGULATORY POLICIES; TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84920250179     PISSN: 20418396     EISSN: 2041840X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wene.125     Document Type: Article

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