Eating Sustainably? Practices and Background Factors of Ecological Food Consumption in Four Nordic Countries

Journal of Consumer Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 465-484

  Niva, Mari ^a   Mäkelä, Johanna ^b   Kahma, Nina ^a   Kjærnes, Unni ^c  

^a National Consumer Research Centre   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Statens institutt for forbruksforskning   (Norway)

Author keywords

Comparative research; Food consumption; Nordic countries; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939881982     PISSN: 01687034     EISSN: 15730700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10603-014-9270-4     Document Type: Article

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