Concern or compliance? Drivers of urban decentralised energy initiatives

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 122-129

  Chmutina, Ksenia ^a   Wiersma, Bouke ^b   Goodier, Chris I ^a   Devine Wright, Patrick ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Decentralised energy; Drivers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888434833     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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