Environmental Protection and Nature as Distinct Attitudinal Objects: An Application of the Campbell Paradigm

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 369-398

  Kaiser, Florian G ^a   Hartig, Terry ^b   Brügger, Adrian ^c,d   Duvier, Caroline ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attitude measurement; attitudes toward nature; connection with nature; conservation (ecological behavior); environmental attitudes; environmental identity

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; COGNITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84875502990     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916511422444     Document Type: Article

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