Sustainable consumption: Transitions, systems and practices

Handbook of Ecological Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 332-359

  Røpke, Inge ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 85087709826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781783471416.00018     Document Type: Chapter

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