Local climate policy: Lessons from a case study of transfer of expertise between UK local authorities

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-95

  Argyriou, Iraklis ^a   Fleming, Paul ^b   Wright, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy data; Local climate policy; Peer support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870836923     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2012.06.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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