The Effects of local ecological knowledge, minimum-impact knowledge, and prior experience on visitor perceptions of the ecological impacts of backcountry recreation

Environmental Management

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 542-554

  D'Antonio, Ashley ^a   Monz, Christopher ^a   Newman, Peter ^b   Taff, Derrick ^b   Lawson, Steve ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c RESOURCE SYSTEMS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Local ecological knowledge; Prior experience; Recreation resource impacts; Structural equation modeling; Visitor perceptions

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; LOCAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; RECREATION IMPACTS; RECREATION RESOURCE IMPACTS; RESOURCE CONDITIONS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SURVEY INSTRUMENTS;

SURVEYS;

ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EQUATION; KNOWLEDGE; MODELING; PERCEPTION; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LAKE; MALE; NATIONAL PARK; PERCEPTION; RECREATION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; COLORADO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECREATION;

BEAR LAKE; COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866564928     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9910-x     Document Type: Article

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