Sustainable consumption, energy and failed transitions: The problem of adaptation

Innovations in Sustainable Consumption

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 159-178

  Hess, David J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84890674937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781001349.00018     Document Type: Chapter

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