Industrial ecology in integrated assessment models

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 13-20

  Pauliuk, Stefan ^a   Arvesen, Anders ^b   Stadler, Konstantin ^b   Hertwich, Edgar G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 85008366599     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3148     Document Type: Review

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