Global carbon inequality

Energy, Ecology and Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 361-369

  Hubacek, Klaus ^a,b   Baiocchi, Giovanni ^a   Feng, Kuishuang ^a   Muñoz Castillo, Raúl ^a,c   Sun, Laixiang ^a,d,e   Xue, Jinjun ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Consumption patterns; Greenhouse gases; Input output analysis; Lifestyles; Mitigation; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042845182     PISSN: 23637692     EISSN: 23638338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40974-017-0072-9     Document Type: Article

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