Rural and environmental concern - focus on the Czech Republic

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 191-199

  Kment, Petr ^a   Kocmánková, Lucie ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Czech Republic; Ecological modernization; Environment; Paradigm shift; Post materialism; Rural areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859946807     PISSN: 0139570X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/37/2010-agricecon     Document Type: Article

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