To reduce and not to reduce resource consumption? That is two questions

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 112-122

  Richetin, Juliette ^a   Perugini, Marco ^a   Conner, Mark ^b   Adjali, Iqbal ^c   Hurling, Robert ^d   Sengupta, Abhijit ^d   Greetham, Danica ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LLOYDS BANKING GROUP   (United Kingdom)

^d UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudinal models; Doing; Goals; Not doing; Pro environmental behavioural prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858414688     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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