Environmental Education for Behaviour Change: Which actions should be targeted?

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1591-1614

  Boyes, Edward ^a   Stanisstreet, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental action; Environmental education; Global warming; Quantitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863467926     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2011.584079     Document Type: Article

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