Predicting people's environmental behaviour: Theory of planned behaviour and model of responsible environmental behaviour

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 437-461

  Chao, Yu Long ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

environmental behaviour; model of responsible environmental behaviour; theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863459295     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2011.634970     Document Type: Article

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