Consumer Responses to the Carbon Labelling of Food: A Real Life Experiment in a Canteen Practice

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 432-453

  Spaargaren, Gert ^a   van Koppen, C S A ^a   Janssen, Anke M ^a   Hendriksen, Astrid ^a   Kolfschoten, Corine J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECOLABELING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOOD CONSUMPTION;

EID: 84884973488     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/soru.12009     Document Type: Article

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