Transition versus transformation: What's the difference?

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 27, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-3

  Hölscher, Katharina ^a   Wittmayer, Julia M ^a   Loorbach, Derk ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85048463694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2017.10.007     Document Type: Article

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