What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 41-58

  Shove, Elizabeth ^a   Walker, Gordon ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

demand; energy; social practice; social theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904629088     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276414536746     Document Type: Article

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