Coming to Terms with Power Lines

International Planning Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 179-201

  Elliott, Peter ^a   Wadley, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; HOMEOWNER; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; POWER LINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861157382     PISSN: 13563475     EISSN: 14699265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2012.673739     Document Type: Article

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