Sustainable food consumption in the nexus between national context and private lifestyle: A multi-level study

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 55, Issue , 2017, Pages 16-25

  Thøgersen, John ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumer innovativeness; Food related lifestyle; Multi level latent class analysis; Organic food; Sustainable consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982106484     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.08.006     Document Type: Article

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