Electricity in the marketplace: reconfiguring the consumption of essential resources

Local Environment

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 313-331

  Guy, Simon ^a   Marvin, Simon ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; LIBERALIZATION; PRIVATIZATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33744860648     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839808725568     Document Type: Article

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