Conscious consumer resistance? Local organic food networks versus the supermarkets

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

Volumn , Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-18

  Seyfang, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food; Localism; Organics; Sustainable consumption

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARKET; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SUSTAINABILITY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 56649109882     PISSN: 09678875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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