Prosperity with growth: Economic growth, climate change and environmental limits

Handbook on Energy and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 617-638

  Hepburn, Cameron ^a   Bowen, Alex ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85011609449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857933690.00041     Document Type: Chapter

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