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OUTDOOR RECREATION PARTICIPATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN
THESIS
It has been mentioned that participation in outdoor recreation event increases awareness of environmental issues, enhances pro-environmental attitudes, and improves the likelihood of supporting environmental conservation. There are two hypotheses concerning the association between pro-environmental behavior and participation in outdoor recreational events which are tested using population survey data.
METHOD
Data was collected in a general population survey from a random sample of individuals in four agricultural communities. Studies were selected based on an empirical classification on the level of agricultural presence, reality and growth.
EVIDENCE
Outdoor recreation participation and environmental behaviors
First, participation in outdoor recreation increases direct experiences with the natural environment and can also increase participants’ attachment to areas where they recreate. Second, outdoor recreation participation can offer learning opportunities that are likely to influence recreationists’ environmental attitudes. Finally, outdoor recreation participation can be thought of as a pathway to and a marker of sub-cultural membership. One distinction between types of outdoor recreation is consumptive versus non-consumptive activities. Consumptive activities involve the participation of participants physically takes something directly from the recreation setting.

A non-consumptive activity includes enjoyment of the natural environment without removing anything.
Determinants of pro-environmental behaviors and conservation
Participation in outdoor recreation events is related to pro-environmental behaviors, and that the pro-environmental attitude motivates people to get involved in environmental conservation programs. This study aims to explore whether there is an extension of this relationship: in that participation in different types of outdoor recreation is associated with involvement in conservation easement programs.
EVALUATION
Participation in outdoor recreational activities is positively related to pro-environmental behaviors. Although the summations of explained variances of the recreational processes are small, they don’t have a bigger difference from demographic and social variables that have been discussed somewhere else to be concerned with the environment. These data usually give substantial support on the first hypotheses of the study with regard that there is the positive connection between the two hypotheses. The application of a more appropriate form of analysis that examined participation in specific outdoor activities individual did not find support for the second hypothesis that consumptive activities are less strongly correlated with environmental concern.