Slow wins: Patience, perseverance and behavior change

Carbon Management

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 607-611

  De Young, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive muddling; behavior change; behavioral continuity; behavioral wedges; demand reduction; durable change; environmental psychology; human nature; innate inclinations; intrinsic satisfactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857344910     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.11.59     Document Type: Review

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