Transitions in the wrong direction?: Digital technologies and daily life

Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 49-68

  Røpke, Inge ^a   Christensen, Toke H ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 84901211789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203071052     Document Type: Chapter

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