Giving up cars – The impact of a mobility experiment on carbon emissions and everyday routines

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 169, Issue , 2017, Pages 135-142

  Laakso, Senja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; De and re routinisation; Experiments; Mobility; Practice theory

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

CARBON EMISSIONS; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; MUTUAL LEARNING; PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES; PRACTICE THEORIES; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; ROUTINISATION; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 85014670012     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.035     Document Type: Article

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