Creating New Paths? Offshore Wind, Policy Activism, and Peripheral Region Development

Economic Geography

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-112

  Dawley, Stuart ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Offshore wind; Path creation; Peripheral region; Policy

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; PERIPHERAL REGION; POLICY ANALYSIS; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL POLICY; WIND FARM;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84892369079     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecge.12028     Document Type: Article

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