Community-led urban transitions and resilience: Performing transition towns in a city

Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 159-177

  Smith, Amanda ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84865161153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203839249     Document Type: Chapter

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