Less meat initiatives at Ghent University: Assessing the support among students and how to increase it

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  De Groeve, Benjamin ^a   Bleys, Brent ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate change mitigation; Information intervention; Less meat initiatives; Meat curtailment; Student survey

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOOD CONSUMPTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MEAT; MITIGATION; STUDENT;

BELGIUM; EAST FLANDERS; GHENT;

EID: 85028698882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9091550     Document Type: Article

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