Young children's environmental attitudes and behaviors

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 635-658

  Evans, Gary W ^a   Brauchle, Gernot ^b   Haq, Aliya ^a   Stecker, Rachel ^a   Wong, Kimberly ^a   Shapiro, Elan ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c Ecovillage ^*

Author keywords

Children; Environmental attitude

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 34548656899     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916506294252     Document Type: Article

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