The ambivalence of attitudes toward urban green areas: Between proenvironmental worldviews and daily residential experience

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-232

  Bonnes, Mirilia ^a   Passafaro, Paola ^a   Carrus, Giuseppe ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

ambivalent attitudes; environmental worldviews; urban green areas; values

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; FIELD SURVEY; GREENSPACE; NEIGHBORHOOD;

ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME;

EID: 79951867891     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916509354699     Document Type: Article

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