Conceptualizing a social sustainability framework for energy infrastructure decisions

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2015, Pages 127-138

  Whitton, John ^a   Parry, Ioan Mihangel ^a   Akiyoshi, Mito ^b   Lawless, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PAINE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Deliberation; Energy infrastructure; Social sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931274123     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2015.05.010     Document Type: Article

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