Participatory democracy meets the hard rock of energy policy: South Africa's national integrated resource plan

Democratization

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 912-931

  Calland, Richard ^a   Nakhooda, Smita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electricity; Energy policy; Integrated resource planning; Public participation; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868239135     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2012.709688     Document Type: Article

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