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| 12 | Sustainable tourist behaviour – a discussion of opportunities for change | International Journal of Consumer Studies | 2007 | 327 |
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| 15 | Experiences from early stages of a national industrial symbiosis programme in the UK: determinants and coordination challenges | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2004 | 299 |
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| 17 | Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2017 | 277 |
| 18 | Taking the Circularity to the Next Level: A Special Issue on the Circular Economy | Journal of Industrial Ecology | 2017 | 275 |
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