Consumer behavior and the use of sustainable energy

Handbook of Sustainable Energy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 181-210

  Madlener, Reinhard ^a   Harmsen van Hout, Marjolein J W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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