Meeting targets, missing people: The energy security implications of the sarawak corridor of renewable energy (score)

Contemporary Southeast Asia

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-82

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a   Bulan, L C ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Borneo; Energy security; Hydroelectricity; Malaysia; Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044803232     PISSN: 0129797X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1355/cs33-1c     Document Type: Article

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