Individual behaviour and collective action towards the environment: An economic framework based on the social customs approach

Rationality and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 203-221

  Hess, Samuel ^a  

^a Government of Basel Stradt   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environment; Norms; Policy; Social customs approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044452089     PISSN: 10434631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104346398010002004     Document Type: Article

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