Determining visitors' dispositions toward the designation of a Greek National Park

Environmental Management

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-88

  Machairas, Ioannis ^a   Hovardas, Tasos ^b  

^a ARCTUROS: Civil Society for the Protection and Management of Wildlife and the Natural Environment   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ecotourism; Environmental attitudes; Environmental knowledge; Greece; Multiple logistic regression; Rhodope

Indexed keywords

PARKS; PROBABILITY; SURVEYS;

ECOTOURISM; ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES; ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE; GREECE; RHODOPE;

DEPOSITION;

ECOTOURISM; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

ARTICLE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NATIONAL PARK; PREDICTION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ADULT; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; RECREATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 23844524287     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0251-7     Document Type: Article

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