What Motivates Green Living? A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainable Life Choices

Human Arenas - Tập 1 Số 4 - Trang 409-430 - 2018
Andrea Varga Weme1, Ole Jacob Madsen1
1Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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