How green is my valley? Tracking rural and urban environmentalism in the Southern Appalachian Ecoregion

Rural Sociology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 482-499

  Jones, Robert Emmet ^a   Fly, J Mark ^a   Cordell, H Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON;

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032713998     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00363.x     Document Type: Article

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