Wilderness Quality and Visitors' Wilderness Attitudes: Management Implications

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Shin, Won Sop Jaakson, Reiner
Copyright Year	1997
Abstract	/ This study examines whether or not wilderness visitors'attitudes toward wilderness are related to the quality of the wilderness thathas been visited. From three Ontario, Canada, provincial parks (Algonquin,Killarney, and Quetico), a sample of 540 wilderness campers was randomlyselected from a total of 138,317 campers. People sampled ranged in age from15 to 75 years with a mean of slightly over 37. They were highly educated. Amajority of them resided in urban or suburban areas. Significant correlationsbetween visitors' levels of wilderness attitudes and wilderness qualitywere found. However, wilderness quality evaluated by wilderness visitors(subjective quality) did not agree with that evaluated by the wildernessmanagers (objective quality).KEY WORDS: Wilderness; Attitudes; Subjective quality; Objectivequality
Starting Page	225
Ending Page	232
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1007/s002679900021
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1007/s002679900021
PubMed reference number	9008073
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1007/s002679900021
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	21
Journal	Environmental management
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article