The role of values, environmental risk perception, awareness of consequences, and willingness to assume responsibility for environmentally-friendly behaviour: The Lithuanian case

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 112, Issue , 2016, Pages 3413-3422

  Liobikiene, Genovaite ^a   Juknys, Romualdas ^a  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Environmentally friendly behaviour; Goal framing theory; Value belief norm theory; Values

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK PERCEPTIONS; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY BEHAVIOUR; GOAL FRAMING THEORY; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; SELF-TRANSCENDENCE; VALUE-BELIEF-NORM THEORY; VALUES;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84958214309     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.049     Document Type: Article

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