The Cow in the Room: Public Knowledge of the Links between Dietary Choices and Health and Environmental Impacts

Environmental Health Insights

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Joyce, Andrew W ^a   Dixon, Sarah ^b   Comfort, Jude ^b   Hallett, Jonathan ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; public health; public knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940165711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EHI.S914     Document Type: Article

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