Search Results - subject:"environmental knowledge"

To what extent does air pollution affect happiness? : the case of the Jinchuan mining area, China

Li, Zhengtao; Folmer, Henk; Xue, Jianhong - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 99 (2014), pp. 88-99

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To what extent does air pollution affect happiness? The case of the Jinchuan mining area, China

Li, Zhengtao; Folmer, Henk; Xue, Jianhong - In: Ecological Economics 99 (2014) C, pp. 88-99

environmental knowledge and proximity to the pollution source; perceived risk of hazard by ability, environmental knowledge, family … size, family health experience and proximity to the pollution source. Environmental knowledge is found to be a function of … policy measure to ameliorate happiness. As environmental knowledge is an important determinant of perceived risk, reduction …

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EL NIVEL DE CONOCIMIENTO MEDIOAMBIENTAL COMO FACTOR MODERADOR DE LA RELACIÓN ENTRE LA ACTITUD Y EL COMPORTAMIENTO ECOLÓGICO /

Fraj Andrés, E.; Martínez Salinas, E. - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 11 (2005) 1, pp. 223-243

. Furthermore, we are interested in discovering if the level of environmental knowledge moderates the relationship between their … ecological behaviour and that the level of environmental knowledge moderates this relationship. …

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Integrating local and scientific weather knowledge as a strategy for adaptation to climate change in the Arctic

Pennesi, Karen; Arokium, Jadah; McBean, Gordon - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 17 (2012) 8, pp. 897-922

As the climate warms, stressors are developing that challenge the adaptive capabilities of Arctic peoples. In Nunavut, one of Canada’s Arctic territories, increased weather variability and changes in physical and climatic conditions are having profound effects on residents. One problem is that...

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Discursive Confusion over Sustainable Consumption: A Discursive Perspective on the Perplexity of Marketplace Knowledge

Markkula, Annu; Moisander, Johanna - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 35 (2012) 1, pp. 105-125

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AN INVESTIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES AMONG MALAYSIANS

Ahmad, Jamilah; Ali, Imran - In: Far East Journal of Marketing and Management 2 No 1 Paper 3 April (2012) 3, pp. 27-38

knowledge among Malaysian residents in Sabah and Sarawak, to examine the sources of their environmental knowledge, and to … environmental awareness among the public. The objectives of the study described here were to assess the level of environmental …

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Western consumers' understanding of carbon offsets and its relationship to behavior

Polonsky, Michael Jay; Garma, Romana; Landreth Grau, Stacy - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 23 (2011) 5, pp. 583-603

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine Western consumers' levels of general environmental knowledge and … specific knowledge related to carbon offsets and the relationships between specific types of environmental knowledge and … proposes a measure for evaluating carbon offset knowledge, which could be used to broaden environmental knowledge assessments. …

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Redressing cultural erosion and ecological decline in a far North Queensland aboriginal community (Australia): the Aurukun ethnobiology database project

Edwards, S.; Heinrich, M. - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 8 (2006) 4, pp. 569-583

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The use of indigenous knowledge in development: problems and challenges

Briggs, John - In: Progress in Development Studies 5 (2005) 2, pp. 99-114

The use of indigenous knowledge has been seen by many as an alternative way of promoting development in poor rural communities in many parts of the world. By reviewing much of the recent work on indigenous knowledge, the paper suggests that a number of problems and tensions has resulted in...

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What are the Main Psychographic Differences between Persons Behave in an Environmentally Friendly Way and Those Who Do Not?

Majláth, Melinda - Keleti Károly Gazdasági Kar, Óbudai Egyetem

Experts dealing with environmentally friendly consumer behavior can often meet the problem of the existing gap between positive environmental attitude and green behavior. Despite of the very intensive communication campaigns in connection with environmental problems there are still only a few...

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