Ecological citizenship: Coming out 'clean' without turning 'green'?

Environmental Politics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 518-537

  Martinsson, Johan ^a   Lundqvist, Lennart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Behaviour; Dissonance; Ecological citizenship; Environment

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77955378773     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2010.489709     Document Type: Article

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