Climate change and individual responsibility: Agency, moral disengagement and the motivational gap

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Climate change and individual responsibility : Agency, moral disengagement and the motivational gap. / Peeters, Wouter; De Smet, Andries; Diependaele, Lisa; Sterckx, Sigrid.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 150 p.

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Harvard

Peeters, W, De Smet, A, Diependaele, L & Sterckx, S 2015, Climate change and individual responsibility: Agency, moral disengagement and the motivational gap. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137464507

APA

Peeters, W., De Smet, A., Diependaele, L., & Sterckx, S. (2015). Climate change and individual responsibility: Agency, moral disengagement and the motivational gap. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137464507

Vancouver

Peeters W, De Smet A, Diependaele L, Sterckx S. Climate change and individual responsibility: Agency, moral disengagement and the motivational gap. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 150 p. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137464507

Author

Peeters, Wouter ; De Smet, Andries ; Diependaele, Lisa ; Sterckx, Sigrid. / Climate change and individual responsibility : Agency, moral disengagement and the motivational gap. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 150 p.

Bibtex

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