Attitudes towards potential animal flagship species in nature conservation: A survey among students of different educational institutions

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 278-290

  Schlegel, Jürg ^a   Rupf, Reto ^a  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affinity for animals; Environmental education; Fear of animals; Flagship species; Multinomial ordinal logit regression; Nature conservation; Questionnaire; Species knowledge

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; LOGIT ANALYSIS; NATURE CONSERVATION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA; REPTILIA;

EID: 77956402237     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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