Sustainable consumption corridors: Concept, objections, and responses

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

Volumn 23, Issue , 2014, Pages 184-192

  Di Giulio, Antonietta ^a   Fuchs, Doris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumption corridors; Good life; Human needs; Sufficiency; Sustain ability ethics; Sustainable consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907692770     PISSN: 09405550     EISSN: 26255413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14512/gaia.23.S1.6     Document Type: Article

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