Communicating the climate impacts of meat consumption: The effect of values and message framing

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 44, Issue , 2017, Pages 98-108

  Graham, Thomas ^a   Abrahamse, Wokje ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change communication; Environmental concern; Framing; Meat consumption; Values

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; FOOD CONSUMPTION; MEAT;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 85018512246     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.03.004     Document Type: Article

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