Public views on the dangers and importance of climate change: predicting climate change beliefs in the United States through income moderated by party identification

Climatic Change

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 217-227

  Bohr, Jeremiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; MODERATING EFFECT; POLITICAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL SURVEY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84919877804     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1198-9     Document Type: Article

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