Whale watchers' past experience, value orientations, and awareness of consequences of actions on the marine environment

Tourism in Marine Environments

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 271-285

  Christensen, Alicia ^a   Needham, Mark D ^a   Rowe, Shawn ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness of consequences; Experience; Norm activation; Value orientations; Whale watching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877666714     PISSN: 1544273X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/154427308788714786     Document Type: Article

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