Water-energy-pollution nexus for growing cities

Urban Climate

Volumn 10, Issue P5, 2014, Pages 846-853

  Kumar, Prashant ^a   Saroj, Devendra P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cities and megacities environment; Energy production and consumption; Power plants; Transport emissions; Urban air pollution; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926064154     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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