From ‘energy geography’ to ‘energy geographies’: Perspectives on a fertile academic borderland

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 105-125

  Calvert, Kirby ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy GIS; interdisciplinary; production of space; renewable energy; transition

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; GIS; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84954509435     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: 14770288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132514566343     Document Type: Article

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