Raising effective awareness for domestic water saving: Evidence from an environmental educational programme in Greece

Water Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 828-844

  Keramitsoglou, Kiriaki M ^a,b   Tsagarakis, Konstantinos P ^b  

^a 1st Vocational Lyceum of Didimoticho ^*  (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental education; Local action; Public attitudes; Water saving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055176164     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2011.103     Document Type: Article

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