City carbon footprint networks

Energies

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Chen, Guangwu ^a   Wiedmann, Thomas ^a,b   Hadjikakou, Michalis ^a   Rowley, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon accounting; Carbon footprint (CF); Cities; City carbon map; Multi region input output modelling; Urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CARBON ACCOUNTING; CARBON NEUTRALITIES; CITIES; EMBODIED EMISSIONS; INPUT-OUTPUT; LOW-CARBON CITIES; MITIGATION POLICIES; POLITICAL LEADERSHIP;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 84982899866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en9080602     Document Type: Article

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