Low carbon scenarios for Europe: An evaluation of upscaling low carbon experiments

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Cassen, Christophe ^a   Hamdi Chérif, Meriem ^b   Cotella, Giancarlo ^c   Toniolo, Jacopo ^c   Lombardi, Patrizia ^c   Hourcade, Jean Charles ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate policies; Integrated assessment models; Low carbon experiments; Scenarios; Transport; Urban forms

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPLEXITY; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EUROPE;

EID: 85044052352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10030848     Document Type: Article

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