Does location matter?: Measuring environmental perceptions of creeks in two San Antonio watersheds

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 229-250

  Brody, Samuel D ^a   Highfield, Wes ^a   Alston, Letitia ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental perceptions; Geographic Information Systems; Proximity; Texas; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; GIS; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; SAN ANTONIO; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542531256     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916503256900     Document Type: Article

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