Space and scale in socio-Technical transitions

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-78

  Ravena, Rob ^a   Schota, Johan ^a   Berkhoutb, Frans ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multi level perspective Multi scalar MLP; Socio technical systems; Spatial scale; Transition

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GAS PRODUCTION; INNOVATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIAL THEORY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

INDIA;

EID: 84867744792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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