The Slow Search for Solutions: Lessons from Historical Energy Transitions by Sector and Service
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- Fouquet, Roger, 2010. "The slow search for solutions: Lessons from historical energy transitions by sector and service," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(11), pages 6586-6596, November.
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energy transition; low carbon economy; technological innovation and diffusion;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2010-04-17 (Energy Economics)
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