Technology-led climate policy

Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 292-339

  Galiana, Isabel ^b   Green, Christopher ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 84924109774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511779015.008     Document Type: Chapter

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