Contextual influences on sustainable behavior

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 267-294

  Hill, Dawn ^a   Figueredo, Aurelio José ^a   Jacobs, W Jake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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