Empirics of the International Inequality in (Formula presented.) Emissions Intensity: Explanatory Factors According to Complementary Decomposition Methodologies

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 57-77

  Duro, Juan Antonio ^a   Teixidó Figueras, Jordi ^a   Padilla, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

(Formula presented.) emissions intensity; (Formula presented.) international distribution; Inequality decomposition

Indexed keywords

CARBONIZATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

$$\HBOX {CO}_{2}$$CO2EMISSIONS INTENSITY; $$\HBOX {CO}_{2}$$CO2INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION; EMISSIONS INTENSITY; ENERGY INTENSITY; FOSSIL ENERGY SOURCES; GLOBAL EMISSIONS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION;

PUBLIC POLICY;

COAL; COMPLEMENTARITY; EMISSION CONTROL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOSSIL FUEL; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84958634906     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-014-9840-6     Document Type: Article

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