Lifestyles, consumption and the environment: The ecological modernisation of domestic consumption

Environmental Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-76

  Spaargaren, Gert ^a   Van Vliet, Bas ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; LIFESTYLE;

EID: 0034078019     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644010008414512     Document Type: Article

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