Local actions, global effects? Understanding the circumstances in which locally beneficial environmental actions cumulate to have global effects

Ecology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Rudel, Thomas K ^a  

^a the State University of New   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruistic environmentalism; Defensive environmentalism; Focusing events; Local global interactions

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; POLITICAL RELATIONS; SOCIAL THEORY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79960022939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04052-160219     Document Type: Article

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