Towards a Green Energy Economy? Assessing policy choices, strategies and transitional pathways

Applied Energy

Volumn 179, Issue , 2016, Pages 1283-1292

  Mundaca, Luis ^a   Neij, Lena ^a   Markandya, Anil ^b   Hennicke, Peter ^c   Yan, Jinyue ^d,e  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^c Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Green Energy Economy; Green growth; Low carbon energy technologies; Policies and strategies; Transitional pathways

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989922839     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.086     Document Type: Editorial

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