Going beyond efficiency: Including altruistic motives in behavioral models for sustainability transitions to address sufficiency

Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-44

  Schäpke, Niko ^a   Rauschmayer, Felix ^b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Public policy; Quality of life; Social behavior; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904091777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2014.11908123     Document Type: Article

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