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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management Volume 24, 2012 - Issue 4: INNOVATION, CONSUMPTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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Transformative innovation policy to meet the challenge of climate change: sociotechnical networks aligned with consumption and end-use as new transition arenas for a low-carbon society or green economy

Fred Steward Policy Studies Institute, University of Westminster, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 331-343 | Published online: 22 Mar 2012

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