Taking environmental action: The role of local composition, context, and collective

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-53

  Wakefield, Sarah E L ^a   Elliott, Susan J ^b   Eyles, John D ^b   Cole, Donald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental action; Local context; Risk perception; Social capital

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION; LOCAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTALISM; RISK PERCEPTION; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HOUSEHOLD; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ATTITUDE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEGOTIATING; ONTARIO; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

CANADA; HAMILTON [ONTARIO]; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 29544439827     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0323-3     Document Type: Article

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