Minding the gap: The role of social learning in linking our stated desire for a more sustainable world to our everyday actions and policies

Social Learning Towards a Sustainable World: Principles, Perspectives, and Praxis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 35-61

  Glasser, Harold ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84899304759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-594-9     Document Type: Chapter

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