Stepping‐up innovations in the water–energy–food nexus: A case study of anaerobic digestion in the UK.
Grand societal challenges such as climate change, poverty and biodiversity loss call for rapid and radical changes to systems of production and consumption. Consequently, there is a growing interest in the dynamics of innovation, both social and technical, to accelerate innovation diffusion so as to...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 185; no. 4; pp. 391 - 406 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2019
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