What factors enable community leadership of renewable energy projects? Lessons from a woodfuel heating initiative

Local Economy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 209-222

  Rogers, Jennifer C ^a   Simmons, Eunice A ^a   Convery, Ian ^b   Weatherall, Andrew ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community; participation; place based identity; renewable energy; rural sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856413807     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269094211429657     Document Type: Article

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