Changing human behaviour and lifestyle: A challenge for sustainable consumption?

The Ecological Economics of Consumption

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 111-131

  Shove, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84896233402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781845423568.00014     Document Type: Chapter

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