Abstract
This study measures environmental values and ethics and explores their relation ships to attitudes toward national forest management. The principal research methods were literature review and a survey of Vermont residents concerning man agement of the Green Mountain National Forest. Descriptive findings suggest respondents (1) favor nonmaterial values of national forests, (2) subscribe to a diversity of environmental ethics, including anthropocentric and bio-/ecocentric, and (3) support emerging concepts of ecosystem management. Environmental values and ethics explain approximately 60% of the variation in attitudes toward national forest management.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 421-436 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Society and Natural Resources |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1999 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Environmental values
- National forests
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Development
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science