Which efficacy constructs for large-scale social dilemma problems Individual and collective forms of efficacy and outcome expectancies in the context of climate change mitigation

Risk Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 184-208

  Koletsou, Alexia ^a   Mancy, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; collective effi cacy; collective outcome expectancy; outcome expectancy; self effi cacy; social dilemma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855178277     PISSN: 14603799     EISSN: 17434637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/rm.2011.12     Document Type: Article

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