Community Transitions to Low Carbon Futures in the Transition Towns Network (TTN)

Geography Compass

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-99

  Aiken, Gerald ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; LANGUAGE;

EID: 84856578623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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