Visiting a climate-influenced national park: The stability of climate change perceptions

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1132-1148

  Brownlee, Matthew Tyler James ^a   Hallo, Jeffrey C ^b   Wright, Brett A ^b   Moore, Dewayne ^b   Powell, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Park management; Structural equation modeling; Visitor experience

Indexed keywords

CHANGE PERCEPTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT; PARK MANAGEMENT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VISITOR EXPERIENCES;

COMMUNICATION; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL PARK; PARK MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NATIONAL PARK; PERCEPTION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; KENAI FJORDS NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PUBLIC OPINION; RECREATION;

EID: 84888206453     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0153-2     Document Type: Article

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