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1 June 2007 Texas Latino College Student Attitudes Toward Natural Resources and the Environment
ANGELICA LOPEZ, CRUZ C. TORRES, BARRY BOYD, NOVA J. SILVY, ROEL R. LOPEZ
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Abstract

Latinos in the United States are an increasing segment of the population and are becoming important stakeholders in the management of natural resources. Although Latinos have been included in attitudinal research on environmental concerns, few studies have focused exclusively on Latino attitudes toward natural resources and the environment. We surveyed Texas college and university students of Mexican descent (n = 635) to determine their environmental concerns. Using the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP), we determined an environmental concern score for each respondent and compared this index to several demographic variables. We found that gender, a political candidate's environmental position, mother's education, combined parental income, and, to a lesser degree, the number of grandparents born in the United States and religiosity (church attendance), were important model variables. We hypothesized that acculturation would be an important factor in predicting NEP scores; however, acculturation level was not an important predictor in our study, which we attribute to both the nature of our sample (i.e., highly acculturated college students) and small sample sizes of less-acculturated college students. We recommend that future research consider determining the importance of acculturation in Latino attitudes toward natural resources and the environment.

ANGELICA LOPEZ, CRUZ C. TORRES, BARRY BOYD, NOVA J. SILVY, and ROEL R. LOPEZ "Texas Latino College Student Attitudes Toward Natural Resources and the Environment," Journal of Wildlife Management 71(4), 1275-1280, (1 June 2007). https://doi.org/10.2193/2006-480
Published: 1 June 2007
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KEYWORDS
acculturation
attitudes
environment
Latinos
Mexican-Americans
natural resources
Texas
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