The sufficiency strategy: Would rich-world frugality lower environmental impact?

Ecological Economics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 770-786

  Alcott, Blake ^a  

^a NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Ethics; I = PAT; Quotas; Resource consumption; Sufficiency rebound

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EQUITY; ETHICS; RESOURCE USE;

EID: 38349103361     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.04.015     Document Type: Article

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