The adoption of sustainable innovations: Driven by symbolic and environmental motives

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-62

  Noppers, Ernst H ^a   Keizer, Kees ^a   Bolderdijk, Jan Willem ^a   Steg, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adoption of innovation; Electric vehicle; Local energy system; Signaling; Sustainability; Symbolic motive

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898468481     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.012     Document Type: Article

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