Effect of Settlement Size and Religiosity on Sense of Place in Communal Settlements

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 821-835

  Casakin, Hernan ^a   Billig, Miriam ^a  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

affective; and conative dimensions; cognitive; communal settlements; sense of place

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950767578     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916508329944     Document Type: Article

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