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- Authors
- Kumar, A.
- ORCID
- Kumar, Ankit
- Venue
- Energy Research & Social Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-03
- Volume
- 49
- Pages
- 158-168
- ISSN
- 2214-6296
- Cited by
- 46
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- Language
- en
- Funders
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Societally Responsible Innovation (MVI) programme (313-99-307)
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