Combining insights from economics and social psychology to explain environmentally significant consumption

Sustainable Energy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 109-127

  Kallbekken, Steffen ^a   Rise, Jostein ^b,c   Westskog, Hege ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 84911197503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203841563     Document Type: Chapter

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