Social movements and urban energy policy: Assessing contexts, agency and outcomes of remunicipalisation processes in Hamburg and Berlin

Utilities Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 228-236

  Becker, Sören ^a   Blanchet, Thomas ^b   Kunze, Conrad ^c  

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

^b Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research GmbH   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy cooperative; Participation; Urban politics

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SECTOR; ENERGY POLICY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POLITICS;

BERLIN; GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY]; HAMBURG [HAMBURG (STT)];

EID: 84959431518     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2016.02.001     Document Type: Article

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