Opening the Black Box of Solar Energy Technologies: Exploring Tensions Between Innovation and Environmental Justice

Science as Culture

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 230-237

  Mulvaney, Dustin ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; environmental justice; innovation; social construction of technology; solar energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879048431     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.786995     Document Type: Article

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