Fossilizing Renewable Energies

Science as Culture

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 172-180

  Raman, Sujatha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geopolitics; mining; rare earths; renewable energy transition; sociotechnical systems; soft energy path

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879058035     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.786998     Document Type: Article

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