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Energy efficiency. / Shove, Elizabeth.
Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector. ed. / Jenny Rinkinen; Elizabeth Shove; Jacopo Torriti. Lodnon: Routledge, 2019. p. 29-38.

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Shove, E 2019, Energy efficiency. in J Rinkinen, E Shove & J Torriti (eds), Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector. Routledge, Lodnon, pp. 29-38. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429397813-4

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Shove, E. (2019). Energy efficiency. In J. Rinkinen, E. Shove, & J. Torriti (Eds.), Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector (pp. 29-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429397813-4

Vancouver

Shove E. Energy efficiency. In Rinkinen J, Shove E, Torriti J, editors, Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector. Lodnon: Routledge. 2019. p. 29-38 doi: 10.4324/9780429397813-4

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Shove, Elizabeth. / Energy efficiency. Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector. editor / Jenny Rinkinen ; Elizabeth Shove ; Jacopo Torriti. Lodnon : Routledge, 2019. pp. 29-38

Bibtex

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