Strategies for promoting proenvironmental behavior: Lots of tools but few instructions

European Psychologist

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-117

  Schultz, P Wesley ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Community based social marketing (CBSM); Conservation (ecological behavior); Proenvironmental behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899494179     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: 1878531X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000163     Document Type: Article

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