Grassroots innovations for sustainable energy: Exploring nichedevelopment processes among community-energy initiatives

Innovations in Sustainable Consumption

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 133-158

  Hielscher, Sabine ^a   Seyfang, Gill ^b   Smith, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84890701349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781001349.00017     Document Type: Chapter

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