Environmental Concern and the Dimensionality Problem: A New Approach to an Old Predicament

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 644-662

  Guber, Deborah Lynn ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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