Collective ownership in renewable energy and opportunities for sustainable degrowth

Sustainability Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 425-437

  Kunze, Conrad ^a   Becker, Sören ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIETY AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community energy; Degrowth; Energy cooperatives; Energy geography; Energy transition; Remunicipalisation; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937816868     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-015-0301-0     Document Type: Article

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