Environmental denial: Why we fail to change our environmentally damaging practices

Synthesis Philosophica

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-106

  Grušovnik, Tomaž ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Environmental denial; Erich Fromm; Psychology of consumer behaviour; Social ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874393765     PISSN: 03527875     EISSN: 18482317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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