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How Powerful are Moral Motivations in Environmental Protection?

An Integrated Model Framework

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Handbook of Moral Motivation

Part of the book series: Moral Development and Citizenship Education ((MORA,volume 1))

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Environmental protection has become a major issue in many contemporary societies (Inglehart, 1995) and it has multiple facets, reaching from the protection of a local wetland or an endangered species, on the one hand, to fighting pollution and opposing genetically modified crops or mitigating global climate change, on the other hand.

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Klöckner, C.A. (2013). How Powerful are Moral Motivations in Environmental Protection?. In: Handbook of Moral Motivation. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-275-4_25

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