Beyond Localism: The Spatial Scale and Scaling in Energy Transitions

Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 106-121

  Späth, Philipp ^a   Rohracher, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Energy transitions; Socio technical system; Spatial scale; Sustainability transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925406462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118567135.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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