Cleantech clusters: Transformational assemblages for a just, green economy or just business as usual?

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1285-1295

  Davies, Anna R ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Cleantech; Environmental governance; Green economy; Industrial clusters; Scale

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; EQUITY; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; SURVEYING;

EID: 84886722637     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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