'Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Lower Your Carbon Footprint!' - Urban Laboratories and the Governance of Low-Carbon Futures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 413-430

  Evans, James ^a   Karvonen, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Governance; Knowledge production; Manchester UK; Urban laboratories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894581994     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12077     Document Type: Article

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