Environmentally friendly behavior: Can heterogeneity among individuals and contexts/environments be harvested for improved sustainable management?

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 693-714

  Dolnicar, Sara ^a   Grün, Bettina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Context dependence; Environment dependence; Heterogeneity; Patterns of proenvironmental behavior

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 70349196823     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916508319448     Document Type: Article

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