The totnes pound: A grassroots technological niche

Advances in Ecopolitics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 163-188

  Longhurst, Noel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84881389747     PISSN: 2041806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S2041-806X(2012)0000009012     Document Type: Article

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