Testing an ethnographic decision tree model on a national sample: Recycling beverage cans

Human Organization

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-114

  Ryan, Gery W ^a   Bernard, H Russell ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Decision modeling; Ethnographic methods; Recycling behavior

Indexed keywords

RECYCLING;

EID: 33644983883     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: 00187259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.65.1.884p8d1a2hxxnk79     Document Type: Article

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