The association of outdoor recreation and environmental concern: Reexamining the Dunlap-Heffernan thesis

Rural Sociology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 94-108

  Theodori, Gene L ^a   Luloff, A E ^a   Willits, Fern K ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN; OUTDOOR RECREATION; PERCEPTION; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; THEORY;

EID: 0031904114     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1998.tb00666.x     Document Type: Article

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