The cold shiver of not giving enough: On the social cost of recycling campaigns

Land Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 539-549

  Bruvoll, Annegrete ^a   Nyborg, Karine ^b  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

^b RAGNAR FRISCH CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; PUBLIC GOODS; RECYCLING;

EID: 9944248467     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3655809     Document Type: Article

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