Identifying climate change interpretive communities in a large Australian sample

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 229-239

  Hine, Donald W ^a   Reser, Joseph P ^b   Phillips, Wendy J ^a   Cooksey, Ray ^a   Marks, Anthony D G ^a   Nunn, Patrick ^a   Watt, Susan E ^a   Bradley, Graham L ^b   Glendon, A Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Communication; Psychological profiling; Segmentation; Social marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884539426     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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