More than filler: Middle actors and socio-technical change in the energy system from the "middle-out"

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 3, Issue C, 2014, Pages 102-112

  Parag, Yael ^a   Janda, Kathryn B ^b  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency and capacity; Energy system transition; Middle actors; Middle out

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924071148     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2014.07.011     Document Type: Article

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