Towards governing infrasystem transitions. Reinforcing lock-in or facilitating change?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1292-1301

  Frantzeskaki, Niki ^a,b   Loorbach, Derk ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complexity; Dynamics; Infrastructures; Planning; Transition management

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; INFRASTRUCTURES; LOCK-IN; TRANSITION MANAGEMENT;

PLANNING;

COMPLEXITY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; SUSTAINABILITY; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 77956683711     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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