Managing trade-offs in 'ecotopia': Becoming green at the Centre for Alternative Technology

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 212-225

  Anderson, Jon ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centre for Alternative Technology; Citizen consumer; Environmentalism; Individual identity; Practice; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTALISM; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-OFF;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84858006650     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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