Brett A Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brett A Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brett A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring the Impact of Community Conservation Enterprises on Household Livelihoods Around Two Wildlife Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa
The community conservation enterprises (CCEs) approach is used for advancing integrated conservation and development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa. CCEs aim to enhance resident livelihoods and reduce dependency on park resources. However, the impacts of CCEs are rarely demonstrable. This exploratory study of residents living adjacent to the Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) in Rwanda and Uganda helps to address this gap by examining the household liv…
Purveyors of One Health: The Ecological Imperative Driving the Future of Leisure Services
The coronavirus pandemic, for all of its damage to human health and well-being, has brought to light the wisdom underlying the idea of One Health, whose advocates reason that health is a reciprocal relationship between our species and the environment that sustains us. What is good for people should also be good for the environment, and what is good for the environment should also be good for people. Their preferred future is one in the same. As t…
The promise of a park, recreation, and tourism education in a participatory democracy
We believe the education of future park, recreation, and tourism professionals is incomplete if it does not prepare them for moral leadership in a participatory democracy. We anchor our thinking in Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture and build our case by revisiting Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, in which he admonished higher education for not preparing students, regardless of major, for assuming responsibility for their country’s m…
Does interpretation influence elaboration and environmental behaviors
Understanding the development of pro-environmental behavioral intentions and behaviors remains one of the greatest challenges for environmental educators worldwide. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model as a theoretical foundation, we developed surveys to evaluate the influence of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Junior Ranger program on youths’ (ages 8–13) elaboration (comprised of awareness, interest, and cognitive engagement) and stewa…
Development and validation of two scales to measure elaboration and behaviors associated with stewardship in children
This investigation examines the development of two scales that measure elaboration and behaviors associated with stewardship in children. The scales were developed using confirmatory factor analysis to investigate their construct validity, reliability, and psychometric properties. Results suggest that a second-order factor model structure provides the best fit. This model produced: (1) a stewardship elaboration scale measuring interest and cognit…
Place Attachment and Marine Recreationists' Attitudes toward Offshore Wind Energy Development
Renewable energy initiatives are increasing and many locations selected for offshore wind farms are close to recreation resources. Public involvement processes to assess project support are standard in offshore wind energy planning. However, often missing from these assessments are investigations into subpopulations, such as marine recreationists. Using mixed methods, researchers evaluated a scale that measures marine recreationists' (n = 483) at…
Attitudes toward Water Conservation: The Influence of Site-Specific Factors and Beliefs in Climate Change
Areas affected by drought are increasing, and many lakes that provide potable water and recreation opportunities are located in drought-vulnerable areas. Understanding a population's attitudes toward conservation actions can improve communication initiatives, policy development, and education, which are all necessary for effective water resource management. However, little is known about stakeholders’ interactions with drought-influenced resource…
Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Comply with Recommended Leave No Trace Practices
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an extended version of the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) for predicting backcountry visitors’ behavioral intentions to comply with recommended Leave No Trace practices. Once confirmed, factors predictive of behavioral intentions can be used to inform the development of more effective persuasive communication strategies and educational messaging. Study participants were over…
Development, Psychometric Qualities, and Cross-Validation of the Leave No Trace Attitudinal Inventory and Measure (LNT AIM)
This article discusses the process undertaken to develop and validate the Leave No Trace (LNT) Attitudinal Inventory and Measure (LNT AIM), an instrument designed to measure attitudes regarding specific practices addressed by the LNT Principles for Responsible Recreation. We envision this tool being useful for determining the necessity for LNT educational programming or for evaluating existing LNT education efforts. A mailed questionnaire was use…
A National Trends Assessment of Hunter Access Problems: Perceptions of State Wildlife Administrators, 1984-1997
Assessing the Temporal Stability of Hunting Participation and the Structure and Intensity of Constraints: A Panel Study
The intent of this panel study of Virginia hunters/non-hunters (N = 497) was to assess the temporal stability of: hunting participation; perceived constraint factor structure and intensity; and the interrelationship of participation and constraints. Findings suggest that participation/non-participation patterns were stable across time periods for the population, yet dynamic at the individual level. Antihunting Attitude and Preference to participa…
Beyond Non-Participation: Validation of Interest and Frequency of Participation Categories in Constraints Research
Research on constraints to recreation participation has accumulated over the past decade, including empirical analyses of constraints and the construction of theoretical models to aid in conceptualizing and explaining variations in participation and non-participation. However, categories as generic and heterogeneous as participant or non-participant have limited our ability to identify and explain how groups differ. This paper presents a model in…
Beyond Non-Participation: Validation of Interest and Frequency of Participation Categories in Constraints Research
Research on constraints to recreation participation has accumulated over the past decade, including empirical analyses of constraints and the construction of theoretical models to aid in conceptualizing and explaining variations in participation and non-participation. However, categories as generic and heterogeneous as participant or non-participant have limited our ability to identify and explain how groups differ. This paper presents a model in…
Place Attachment and Marine Recreationists' Attitudes toward Offshore Wind Energy Development
Renewable energy initiatives are increasing and many locations selected for offshore wind farms are close to recreation resources. Public involvement processes to assess project support are standard in offshore wind energy planning. However, often missing from these assessments are investigations into subpopulations, such as marine recreationists. Using mixed methods, researchers evaluated a scale that measures marine recreationists' (n = 483) at…
Assessing the Temporal Stability of Hunting Participation and the Structure and Intensity of Constraints: A Panel Study
The intent of this panel study of Virginia hunters/non-hunters (N = 497) was to assess the temporal stability of: hunting participation; perceived constraint factor structure and intensity; and the interrelationship of participation and constraints. Findings suggest that participation/non-participation patterns were stable across time periods for the population, yet dynamic at the individual level. Antihunting Attitude and Preference to participa…
Does interpretation influence elaboration and environmental behaviors
Understanding the development of pro-environmental behavioral intentions and behaviors remains one of the greatest challenges for environmental educators worldwide. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model as a theoretical foundation, we developed surveys to evaluate the influence of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Junior Ranger program on youths’ (ages 8–13) elaboration (comprised of awareness, interest, and cognitive engagement) and stewa…
Development, Psychometric Qualities, and Cross-Validation of the Leave No Trace Attitudinal Inventory and Measure (LNT AIM)
This article discusses the process undertaken to develop and validate the Leave No Trace (LNT) Attitudinal Inventory and Measure (LNT AIM), an instrument designed to measure attitudes regarding specific practices addressed by the LNT Principles for Responsible Recreation. We envision this tool being useful for determining the necessity for LNT educational programming or for evaluating existing LNT education efforts. A mailed questionnaire was use…
Attitudes toward Water Conservation: The Influence of Site-Specific Factors and Beliefs in Climate Change
Areas affected by drought are increasing, and many lakes that provide potable water and recreation opportunities are located in drought-vulnerable areas. Understanding a population's attitudes toward conservation actions can improve communication initiatives, policy development, and education, which are all necessary for effective water resource management. However, little is known about stakeholders’ interactions with drought-influenced resource…
Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Comply with Recommended Leave No Trace Practices
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an extended version of the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) for predicting backcountry visitors’ behavioral intentions to comply with recommended Leave No Trace practices. Once confirmed, factors predictive of behavioral intentions can be used to inform the development of more effective persuasive communication strategies and educational messaging. Study participants were over…
Development and validation of two scales to measure elaboration and behaviors associated with stewardship in children
This investigation examines the development of two scales that measure elaboration and behaviors associated with stewardship in children. The scales were developed using confirmatory factor analysis to investigate their construct validity, reliability, and psychometric properties. Results suggest that a second-order factor model structure provides the best fit. This model produced: (1) a stewardship elaboration scale measuring interest and cognit…
Beyond Non-Participation: Validation of Interest and Frequency of Participation Categories in Constraints Research
Research on constraints to recreation participation has accumulated over the past decade, including empirical analyses of constraints and the construction of theoretical models to aid in conceptualizing and explaining variations in participation and non-participation. However, categories as generic and heterogeneous as participant or non-participant have limited our ability to identify and explain how groups differ. This paper presents a model in…
A National Trends Assessment of Hunter Access Problems: Perceptions of State Wildlife Administrators, 1984-1997
Assessing the Temporal Stability of Hunting Participation and the Structure and Intensity of Constraints: A Panel Study
The intent of this panel study of Virginia hunters/non-hunters (N = 497) was to assess the temporal stability of: hunting participation; perceived constraint factor structure and intensity; and the interrelationship of participation and constraints. Findings suggest that participation/non-participation patterns were stable across time periods for the population, yet dynamic at the individual level. Antihunting Attitude and Preference to participa…
Development, Psychometric Qualities, and Cross-Validation of the Leave No Trace Attitudinal Inventory and Measure (LNT AIM)
This article discusses the process undertaken to develop and validate the Leave No Trace (LNT) Attitudinal Inventory and Measure (LNT AIM), an instrument designed to measure attitudes regarding specific practices addressed by the LNT Principles for Responsible Recreation. We envision this tool being useful for determining the necessity for LNT educational programming or for evaluating existing LNT education efforts. A mailed questionnaire was use…
Attitudes toward Water Conservation: The Influence of Site-Specific Factors and Beliefs in Climate Change
Areas affected by drought are increasing, and many lakes that provide potable water and recreation opportunities are located in drought-vulnerable areas. Understanding a population's attitudes toward conservation actions can improve communication initiatives, policy development, and education, which are all necessary for effective water resource management. However, little is known about stakeholders’ interactions with drought-influenced resource…
Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Comply with Recommended Leave No Trace Practices
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an extended version of the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) for predicting backcountry visitors’ behavioral intentions to comply with recommended Leave No Trace practices. Once confirmed, factors predictive of behavioral intentions can be used to inform the development of more effective persuasive communication strategies and educational messaging. Study participants were over…
Development and validation of two scales to measure elaboration and behaviors associated with stewardship in children
This investigation examines the development of two scales that measure elaboration and behaviors associated with stewardship in children. The scales were developed using confirmatory factor analysis to investigate their construct validity, reliability, and psychometric properties. Results suggest that a second-order factor model structure provides the best fit. This model produced: (1) a stewardship elaboration scale measuring interest and cognit…
Place Attachment and Marine Recreationists' Attitudes toward Offshore Wind Energy Development
Renewable energy initiatives are increasing and many locations selected for offshore wind farms are close to recreation resources. Public involvement processes to assess project support are standard in offshore wind energy planning. However, often missing from these assessments are investigations into subpopulations, such as marine recreationists. Using mixed methods, researchers evaluated a scale that measures marine recreationists' (n = 483) at…
Does interpretation influence elaboration and environmental behaviors
Understanding the development of pro-environmental behavioral intentions and behaviors remains one of the greatest challenges for environmental educators worldwide. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model as a theoretical foundation, we developed surveys to evaluate the influence of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Junior Ranger program on youths’ (ages 8–13) elaboration (comprised of awareness, interest, and cognitive engagement) and stewa…
The promise of a park, recreation, and tourism education in a participatory democracy
We believe the education of future park, recreation, and tourism professionals is incomplete if it does not prepare them for moral leadership in a participatory democracy. We anchor our thinking in Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture and build our case by revisiting Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, in which he admonished higher education for not preparing students, regardless of major, for assuming responsibility for their country’s m…
Exploring the Impact of Community Conservation Enterprises on Household Livelihoods Around Two Wildlife Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa
The community conservation enterprises (CCEs) approach is used for advancing integrated conservation and development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa. CCEs aim to enhance resident livelihoods and reduce dependency on park resources. However, the impacts of CCEs are rarely demonstrable. This exploratory study of residents living adjacent to the Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) in Rwanda and Uganda helps to address this gap by examining the household liv…
Purveyors of One Health: The Ecological Imperative Driving the Future of Leisure Services
The coronavirus pandemic, for all of its damage to human health and well-being, has brought to light the wisdom underlying the idea of One Health, whose advocates reason that health is a reciprocal relationship between our species and the environment that sustains us. What is good for people should also be good for the environment, and what is good for the environment should also be good for people. Their preferred future is one in the same. As t…
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (5 works)