The alberta energy sector’s voluntary approach to climate change: Context, prospects, and limits

Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 293-310

  Lucas, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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