Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns

Nature Energy

Volumn 1, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a,b   Heffron, Raphael J ^c   McCauley, Darren ^d   Goldthau, Andreas ^e,f  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ENERGY CONSUMER; ENERGY JUSTICES; ENERGY POVERTIES; ENERGY PROBLEM; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ETHICAL CONCERNS; POLICY MAKERS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84971364831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.24     Document Type: Review

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