Impeding ecological sustainability through selective moral disengagement

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-35

  Bandura, Albert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective efficacy; Consumptive lifestyles; Environmental ethics; Moral agency; Moral disengagement; Population growth; Psychosocial change; Self efficacy; Token gestures

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249118314     PISSN: 17408822     EISSN: 17408830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISD.2007.016056     Document Type: Article

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