College Students and Nature: Differing Thoughts of Fear, Danger, Disconnection, and Loathing.
Despite the existence of a robust body of research that investigates human–nature connections, few scholars have examined what people tend to ponder when they think of nature. The objective of the study is to find out how college and university students think about nature. The study also seeks to id...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 79 - 97 |
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Springer Nature
Jul2019
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