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The Changing Relationship between Consumer and Environmental Policy: Analyzing JCP's Quarter Century of Coverage

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Consumers, Policy and the Environment A Tribute to Folke Ölander

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Mathios, A.M., Mayer, R.N. (2005). The Changing Relationship between Consumer and Environmental Policy: Analyzing JCP's Quarter Century of Coverage. In: Grunert, K.G., Thøgersen, J. (eds) Consumers, Policy and the Environment A Tribute to Folke Ölander. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25004-2_2

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