Predicting support of climate policies by using a protection motivation model

Climate Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 321-338

  Lam, San Pui ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

adaptation policy; climate change policy; policy support; responsibility attribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927910883     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2014.916599     Document Type: Article

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