Harnessing community energies: Explaining and evaluating community-based localism in renewable energy policy in the UK

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Walker, Gordon ^a   Hunter, Sue ^c   Devine Wright, Patrick ^b,c   Evans, Bob ^d   Fay, Helen ^e  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c International Science Panel on Renewable Energy ^*

^d NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENERGY POLICY; FINANCIAL PROVISION; POLICY ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34247513551     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/glep.2007.7.2.64     Document Type: Article

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