Lithuanian achievements in terms of CO2 emissions based on production side in the context of the EU-27

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 483-503

  Liobikienė, Genovaitė ^a   Mandravickaitė, Justina ^b   Krepštulienė, Danguolė ^c   Bernatonienė, Jurga ^a   Savickas, Arūnas ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b Vytautas Magnus   (Lithuania)

^c Department of Statistics of Agriculture and Environment at the Statistics Lithuania ^*  (Lithuania)

Author keywords

decoupling; environmental policy; GHG emissions; production; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019152965     PISSN: 20294913     EISSN: 20294921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/20294913.2015.1056278     Document Type: Article

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