Researching air-conditioning addiction and ways of puncturing practice: Professional office workers and the decision to go outside

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2838-2856

  Hitchings, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AMBIENT AIR; DECISION MAKING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INDOOR AIR; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 83455200399     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43574     Document Type: Article

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