Creating sustainable identities: The significance of the financially affluent self

Sustainable Development

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 123-134

  Hurth, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affluent; Consumption; Energy; Identity; Marketing; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ENERGY USE; MARKETING; POST-MODERNISM; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 77952981579     PISSN: 09680802     EISSN: 10991719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sd.453     Document Type: Article

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