Personally Relevant Climate Change: The Role of Place Attachment and Local Versus Global Message Framing in Engagement

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-85

  Scannell, Leila ^a   Gifford, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change communication; climate change engagement; local and global climate impacts; message framing; place attachment

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GUIDELINE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84871528203     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916511421196     Document Type: Article

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