Sociological Tasks in View of the Transition to Post-carbon Societies. Also a Comment to Michael Redclift

• Authors: Fritz Reusswig
• Languages of publication: EN
• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 189-195

Dates

published

2011-10-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Fritz Reusswig

• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2011-0028