Greening due to environmental education? Environmental knowledge, attitudes, consumer behavior and everyday pro-environmental activities of Hungarian high school and university students

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 48, Issue , 2013, Pages 126-138

  Zsóka, Ágnes ^a   Szerényi, Zsuzsanna Marjainé ^a   Széchy, Anna ^a   Kocsis, Tamás ^a  

^a Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Environmental awareness; Environmental education; High school students; Multidimensional scaling; Sustainable consumption; University students

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84879901899     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.11.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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