Fast Cars/Fast Foods: Hyperconsumption and its Health and Environmental Consequences

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-322

  Freund, Peter ^a   Martin, George ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption practices; Hyperconsumption; Mode of consumption; Social ecology of risk; Social organization of space; Unhealthy environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849119190     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2008.10     Document Type: Article

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