The Measurement of Place Attachment: Validity and Generalizability of a Psychometric Approach

Forest Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 830-840

  Williams, Daniel R ^a   Vaske, Jerry J ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Recreation; Reliability; Scale development; Sense of place

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DATA SETS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0347380937     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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