Urban retrofitting: Identifying disruptive and sustaining technologies using performative and foresight techniques

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 131-144

  Dixon, Tim ^a   Eames, Malcolm ^b   Britnell, Judith ^c   Watson, Georgia Butina ^c   Hunt, Miriam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cities; Energy; Low carbon; Retrofit; Roadmaps; Transition theory; Waste; Water

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTES; WATER;

CITIES; ENERGY; LOW CARBON; RETROFIT; ROAD-MAPS; TRANSITION THEORIES;

RETROFITTING;

EMISSION CONTROL; INNOVATION; LEARNING; RESEARCH METHOD; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 85027931632     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.08.027     Document Type: Article

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