Understanding residents’ environmental knowledge in a metropolitan city of Hong Kong, China

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 507-524

  Cheung, Lewis T O ^a   Fok, Lincoln ^b   Tsang, Eric P K ^b   Fang, Wei ^a   Tsang, H Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

environmental education; environmental information; environmental knowledge; Hong Kong; promotion channel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926972813     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2014.898247     Document Type: Article

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