The influence of natural environment in area of daily life on recreational and management activity on familiar forest
2007
Takayama, N.(Forestry and Forest Products Research Inst., Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)) | Kita, A. | Kagawa, T.
In the present research, the authors attempted to use Structural Equation Modeling to analyze the causal relation among 1: 'evaluation' and 'activity (recreational and management activity)' vis-a-vis familiar forests, 2: mental 'attitude' toward the natural environment, and 3: the natural environment in the area of daily life (abbreviated as NEAD) of test subjects. As a result, potential variables such as 'evaluation' were set and named between 'attitude' and 'activity'. Then, the causal relations among them were arranged in a path chart to provide a visual image. We found that NEAD did not directly affect 'evaluation' and 'activity', but it could ultimately affect them indirectly through causal relations with other factors. The NEAD of 'pre-formation' had strong causal relations with various variables such as the NEAD of 'after-formation' and the chance of interacting with nature of 'pre- and after-formation'. Many previous studies had indicated that the information on 'after-formation' was more influential. However, the results of the present research suggest that information on 'pre-formation' may have a greater effect than it on 'evaluation' and 'activity' vis-a-vis familiar forests.
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