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Other mainstream interventions have typically taken an approach of continuity, working through incremental adjustments.
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- Authors
- Unruh, G. C.
- Affiliations
- Fundación IE (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Unruh, Gregory C.
- Venue
- Energy Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-03
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 317-325
- ISSN
- 0301-4215 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2055908663
- Cited by
- 1,020
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 69 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 65 · 2020: 80 · 2019: 53 · 2018: 82 · 2017: 45 · 2016: 49 · 2015: 52 · 2014: 55 · 2013: 43 · 2012: 47
- FWCI
- 5.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Energy Policy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Keywords
- carbon lock-in, path dependence, increasing returns to scale, climate policy, energy system transformation
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