Rethinking the governance of energy infrastructure: Scale, decentralization and polycentrism

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 134-140

  Goldthau, Andreas ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Energy governance; Infrastructure; Polycentrism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904684218     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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