Incorporating community governance: Planning sustainable energy security

International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-365

  Costello, Diane ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community engagement; Decentralized renewable energy sustainable energy planning; Deliberative democracy; Procedural and distributive justice community energy; Sustainability planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455214118     PISSN: 18322077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.18848/1832-2077/cgp/v07i04/54960     Document Type: Article

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