The Vicissitudes of Energy and Climate Policy in Stockholm: Politics, Materiality and Transition

Urban Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1449-1470

  Rutherford, Jonathan ^a  

^a Universite Paris Est   (France)

Author keywords

district heating; energy and climate policy; Stockholm; Sweden; urban materiality; urban politics

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN POLITICS;

STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

EID: 84899464470     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013500088     Document Type: Article

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