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Harding, James A.; Borrie, William T.; Cole, David N. 2000. Factors That Limit Compliance With Low-Impact Recommendations. In: Cole, David N.; McCool, Stephen F.; Borrie, William T.; O’Loughlin,
Jennifer, comps. 2000. Wilderness science in a time of change conference—
Volume 4: Wilderness visitors, experiences, and visitor management; 2000
May 23–27; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-4. Ogden, UT: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research
Station. 198-202.
Leopold
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Abstract:
Despite widespread efforts to minimize resource impacts,
a number of remote areas continue to suffer from poor
backcountry practices. Research to evaluate the effectiveness of
low-impact communication strategies as they relate to recall of
messages (Cole and others 1997) measured whether or not
recreationists were aware of appropriate behavior given certain
scenarios; it did not measure actual compliance. Partially in response
to the results of that study, it has been hypothesized that a
lack of information is not necessarily the only limiting factor in
complying with specific low-impact recommendations. We propose
a four-stage model of factors that might help to explain some
noncompliance with backcountry low-impact recommendations
where information is not the limiting factor.
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