Energy availability and energy sources as determinants of societal development in a long-term perspective

MRS Energy and Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Fischer Kowalski, Marina ^a   Schaffartzik, Anke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

energy storage

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; URBAN GROWTH;

ENERGY; ENERGY AVAILABILITY; ENERGY SOURCE; ENERGY TRANSITIONS; FUTURE ENERGIES; HUMAN SOCIETY; LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE; PASSIVE SOLAR; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SOLAR ENERGY UTILIZATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 85141835087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23292237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/mre.2015.2     Document Type: Review

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