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Tourist Transportation Generated Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions in Latvia

Environmental and Climate Technologies
Volume 23 (2019): Issue 3 (December 2019)
By: Tamara Grizane and  Inguna Jurgelane-Kaldava  
Open Access
|Dec 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0095 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208
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Language: English
Page range: 274 - 292
Published on: Dec 13, 2019
Published by: Riga Technical University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
CO2 emissions,
tourism,
transportation
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
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