Proenvironmental behaviours of forest landowner and nonlandowner recreationists

摘要

Data from a study of forest landowners and nonlandowners in Pennsylvania were used to test the hypothesis that forest landowner recreationists and nonlandowner recreationists exhibit dissimilar levels of proenvironmental behaviour. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses provide weak support for the hypothesis. Differences in the descriptive factors and types of outdoor recreational activities engaged in by forest landowner and nonlandowner recreationists were also examined. The twogroups differed in the patterns of their outdoor activities and in five of eight descriptive factors (age, income, political ideology, location of residence, and frequency of forest visitation for recreational activity). The results indicate that forestlandowners are slightly more involved in proenvironmental activities than nonlandowning recreationists, suggesting that separate programmes to address environmental and natural resources related issues with the two groups are required. These findings should be considered when designing education extension material.