Energy justice and the low-carbon transition: assessing low-carbon community programmes in the UK

Energy justice in a changing climate: Social equity and low-carbon energy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 61-78

  Fuller, Sara ^a   Bulkeley, Harriet ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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