A system dynamics approach for enhancing social behaviours regarding the reuse of packaging

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 417-425

  Babader, Ahmed ^a   Ren, Jun ^a   Jones, Karl O ^a   Wang, Jin ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Personal and social values, Behaviour control; Reuse packaging; System dynamics; Waste packaging

Indexed keywords

INCINERATION; PACKAGING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SYSTEM THEORY; WASTE INCINERATION;

BEHAVIOUR CONTROLS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION VALUE; PACKAGING INDUSTRY; PREVENTIVE ACTION; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84947561178     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2015.10.025     Document Type: Article

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