Environmental information-explanatory factors for Information Behavior

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2785-2798

  Von Borgstede, Chris ^a   Andersson, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Information behavior; Personal norms; Recycling information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861365751     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2092785     Document Type: Article

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