How does air conditioning become 'needed'? A case study of routes, rationales and dynamics

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 4, Issue C, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Walker, Gordon ^a,b   Shove, Elizabeth ^a,c   Brown, Sam ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air conditioning; Hospital; Practices; Rationales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924020534     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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