Effects of childhood experience with nature on tolerance of urban residents toward hornets and wild boars in Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Hosaka, Tetsuro ^a   Sugimoto, Koun ^a   Numata, Shinya ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHILDHOOD; EUROPEAN WILD BOAR; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDIATOR; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE VARIABLE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; VESPA; WILDLIFE; ADULT; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PIG; WASP; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; SUS SCROFA; URBAN POPULATION; WASPS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85017123381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175243     Document Type: Article

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