Green hypocrisy?: Environmental attitudes and residential space heating expenditure

Ecological Economics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 76-83

  Lange, Ian ^a   Moro, Mirko ^b,c   Traynor, Laura ^b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

BHPS; Environmental attitudes; Green hypocrisy; Heating expenditures; Q40; Q50

Indexed keywords

EMISSION; ENERGY USE; GREEN REVOLUTION; HEATING; PERCEPTION; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84906735423     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.07.021     Document Type: Article

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