Reducing the natural resource intensity of private and organisational consumption: the potential of ICT and service innovations

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 453-474

  Heiskanen, Eva ^a   Jalas, Mikko ^b   Timonen, Päivi ^a  

^a National Consumer Research Centre   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

adoption; consumption; dynamics; ICT; innovations; natural resources; services

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950841553     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/pie.2005.007820     Document Type: Article

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