No Time to Waste: An Exploration of Time Use, Attitudes toward Time, and the Generation of Municipal Solid Waste

Social Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 100-140

  Godbey, Geoffrey ^a   Lifset, Reid ^a   Robinson, John ^a  

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