Behavioural economics: Seven key principles for environmental policy

The Political Economy of the Environment: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 74-98

  Shah, Hetan ^b  

^a New Economics Foundation ^*

^b New Economics Foundation   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203830673     Document Type: Chapter

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