Measuring outdoor recreationists' beliefs in climate change (2015)
In the study Measuring outdoor recreationists' beliefs in climate change: testing the Occurrence and Anthropogenic Causational Scale (OC-AN), researchers used a survey of national park visitors in Alaska (n = 429), lake recreationists in the southeast U.S. (n = 210), and marine recreationists along the US Atlantic Coast (n=483) to understand recreationists' beliefs in climate change. A scale was developed using two primary dimensions: occurrence - the belief that climate chan