Segmenting households according to recycling attitudes in a Portuguese urban area

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Vicente, Paula ^a   Reis, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Recycling; Segmentation; Waste

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RECYCLING;

MARKET COMMUNICATION; RECYCLING PROGRAMS;

SOLID WASTES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTES;

LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RECYCLING; SEGMENTATION; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMESTIC WASTE; HOUSEHOLD; PORTUGAL; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548480465     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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