Towards environmentally sustainable human behaviour: Targeting non-conscious and conscious processes for effective and acceptable policies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 375, Issue 2095, 2017, Pages

  Marteau, Theresa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Behaviour change; Non conscious processes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; MAMMALS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ACCEPTABILITY; ANIMAL SOURCE FOODS; BEHAVIOUR CHANGES; BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE; CONSCIOUS PROCESS; EFFECTIVE SYSTEMS; MATERIAL DEMANDS; PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITIES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSCIOUSNESS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; POLLUTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85018883028     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0371     Document Type: Review

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