Reducing particulate matter emissions from buses and trucks in Asia: A framework to assess air pollution and climate change co-impacts

Low Carbon Transport in Asia: Strategies for Optimizing Co-benefits

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 68-94

  Reynolds, Conor C O ^a   Grieshop, Andrew P ^a   Kandlikar, Milind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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