Reducing householders' grocery carbon emissions: Carbon literacy and carbon label preferences

Australasian Marketing Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 240-249

  Sharp, Anne ^a   Wheeler, Meagan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon knowledge; Carbon labelling; Green marketing; On pack labels; Sustainability; Traffic light labelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888061157     PISSN: 14413582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ausmj.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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