Urban Energy Transitions: Places, Processes and Politics of Socio-technical Change

Urban Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1353-1377

  Rutherford, Jonathan ^a   Coutard, Olivier ^a  

^a Universite Paris Est   (France)

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EID: 84898660095     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013500090     Document Type: Editorial

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