Putting practice into policy: reconfiguring questions of consumption and climate change

Contemporary Social Science

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 415-429

  Shove, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84919668347     PISSN: 21582041     EISSN: 2158205X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2012.692484     Document Type: Article

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