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Climate Policy and Nonrenewable Resources: The Green Paradox and Beyond
Edited by
Karen Pittel
Karen Pittel

Karen Pittel is Director of the Ifo Center for Energy, Climate, and Exhaustible Resources and Professor of Economics at Munich University.

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Rick van der Ploeg
Rick van der Ploeg

Rick van der Ploeg is Professor of Economics and Research Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.

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Cees Withagen
Cees Withagen

Cees Withagen is Professor of Environmental Economics at VU University, Amsterdam.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262027885.001.0001
ISBN electronic:
9780262319836
Publication date:
2014
Book Chapter

5: Fossil Fuels, Backstop Technologies, and Imperfect Substitution

By
Gerard van der Meijden
Gerard van der Meijden
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Doi:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10056.003.0008
  • Published:
    2014

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