ECO-warriors in the supermarket?: Evaluating the UK sustainable consumption strategy as a tool for ecological citizenship

Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment

Volumn , Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-19

  Seyfang, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological citizenship; Environmental decision making; Government policy; Institutions; Sustainable consumption and production

Indexed keywords

HARNESS;

EID: 56549103956     PISSN: 09678875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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