Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs Experiments

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 425-436

  Davies, Anna R ^a   Doyle, Ruth ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

governance, social practices; socioecological systems; sustainable consumption; transformations

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; LEARNING; PLANNING PRACTICE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84924121169     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.1000948     Document Type: Article

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