China's policy initiatives for the development of wind energy technology

Climate Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 30-57

  Dai, Yixin ^a   Xue, Lan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; leapfrogging; macro policy; policy initiative; wind technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920579067     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2014.863549     Document Type: Article

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