Leverage for sustainable change: Motivational sources behind ecological behavior

Psychological Approaches to Sustainability: Current Trends in Theory, Research and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 109-124

  Roczen, Nina ^a,b,c   Kaiser, Florian G ^a   Bogner, Franz X ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

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