Constructing markets for green electricity: The ‘soft power’ of intermediaries in transforming energy systems

Shaping Urban Infrastructures: Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 75-91

  Rohracher, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

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EID: 84921756150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849775380     Document Type: Chapter

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