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Associate Department Head for Academic Programs

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Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Gerard Kyle earned his undergraduate degree in psychology with an emphasis in park and protected area management from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). His masters and PhD work continued this line of inquiry at The Pennsylvania State University where he graduated in 2001. His current research grows from this base. This research addresses an array of questions that provide insight on people's propensity to adopt behaviors that reduce their carbon footprint, protect biodiversity, promote stewardship, and support the protection and development of green infrastructure and the ecosystem services they afford. He was editor of the journal Leisure Sciences from 2013 to 2016 and is currently an Associate Editor for the journals Environment and Behavior, Society and Natural Resources, and the Human Dimensions of Wildlife.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Human Dimensions Of Natural Resource Management

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Globalization And International Higher Education

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Developmental Model Of Intercultural Sensitivity

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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Linking place preferences with place meaning: An examination of the relationship between place motivation and place attachment

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Positive emotions and passionate leisure involvement

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Spatial variation in level and type of place attachment

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A STUDY OF RECREATIONAL BOATING ON LAKE TRAVIS, TEXAS

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Testing a new scale of place identity in the Texas Hill Country

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Commitment to public leisure service providers: A conceptual and psychometric analysis

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An examination of the leisure involvement-agency commitment relationship

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THE AFFECTIVE-PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS OF FESTIVAL VISITOR LOYALTY FORMATION

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Global citizenry, educational travel and sustainable tourism: evidence from Australia and New Zealand

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Public Response to Park and Recreation Funding and Cost-saving Strategies: The Role of Organizational Trust and Commitment

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Effect of activity involvement and place attachment on recreationists' perceptions of setting density

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Market Segmentation Using Perceived Constraints

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Mapping outdoor recreationists' perceived social values for ecosystem services at Hinchinbrook Island National Park, Australia

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Enduring leisure involvement: the importance of personal relationships

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Using a styles of participation self-classification measure to characterize highly specialized anglers Styles of participation

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Toward moral pathways to motivate wildlife conservation

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Modeling the trust-risk relationship in a wildland recreation setting: A social exchange perspective

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Examining the Behavior, Management Preferences, and Sociodemographics of Artificial Reef Users in the Gulf of Mexico Offshore from Texas

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Growing in place: the interplay of urban agriculture and place sentiment

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Perceived constraints to art museum attendance

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Fairness of prices, user fee policy and willingness to pay among visitors to a national forest

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The moderating role of place attachment on the relationship between attitudes toward fees and spending preferences

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Exploring the crowding-satisfaction relationship between day and overnight users in the lower Colorado River Basin, Texas

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Anglers' Motivations for Volunteering with Fishing or Conservation Organizations

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The influence of involvement and outcome messages on consumer reference prices

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Coping with crowded recreation settings: a cross-cultural investigation

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Conservation scholars' perspectives on the morality of trophy hunting for the sake of conservation

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An examination of the relationship between leisure activity involvement and place attachment among hikers along the Appalachian Trail

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Natural area visitors' place meaning and place attachment ascribed to a marine setting

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An examination of the social-psychological drivers of homeowner wildfire mitigation

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Capturing multiple values of ecosystem services shaped by environmental worldviews: a spatial analysis.

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An examination of the motivation - Enduring involvement relationship

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The future of wildlife conservation funding: What options do US college students support?

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Testing the Effects of Constraints on Climate Change-Friendly Behavior among Groups of Australian Residents

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Modeling the trust-risk relationship in a wildland recreation setting: A social exchange perspective (vol 13, pg 23, 2016)

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Diverse University Students Across the United States Reveal Promising Pathways to Hunter Recruitment and Retention

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Comparison of Place Bonding Models in Recreation Resource Management

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Segmenting Anglers Using Their Consumptive Orientation Profiles

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Shifting setting densities and normative evaluations of recreation experiences over time

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Exploring the Psychological Dimensions of Stewardship in Recreational Fisheries

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Accounting for Gender in a Study of the Motivation-Involvement Relationship

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Gender Identity, Leisure Identity, and Leisure Participation

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The experience of psychological reactance in response to encountering fees for public land recreation

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Reassessing the Structure of Enduring Leisure Involvement

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Displacement and associated substitution behavior among Texas inshore fishing guides due to perceived spotted seatrout declines

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Use and users of the Appalachian Trail: A geographic study

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Effects of place attachment on users' perceptions of social and environmental conditions in a natural setting

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Manipulating consumer price expectations for a 10K road race

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Bridging Managers' Place Meanings and Environmental Governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

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Coping with change in rural landscapes: The psychological stress of rural residents experiencing unconventional gas developments

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Citizen Preferences for the Corporate Sponsorship of Public-Sector Park and Recreation Organizations

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The Meanings Associated with Varying Degrees of Attachment to a Natural Landscape

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On the relationship between hunters and pro-environmental intent

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Camper choice behavior for three proximal sites

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The antecedents of place attachment in the context of an Australian national park

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Pro-environmental Behavior in Marine Protected Areas: The Cases of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

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Australian residents' attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour and climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef

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Predictors of behavioral loyalty among hikers along the Appalachian Trail

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Modeling the impacts of cetacean-focused tourism in Taiwan: observations from cetacean watching boats: 2002-2005.

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Can wolves suppress goodwill for leopards? Need for further evidence

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DEVELOPING A MARKET-SPECIFIC DESTINATION IMAGE SCALE: A NOMOLOGICAL VALIDATION APPROACH

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Testing the dimensionality of place attachment in recreational settings

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An Alternate Conceptualization of the Leisure Constraints Measurement Model Formative Structure?

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The efficacy of message frames on recreational boaters' aquatic invasive species mitigation behavioral intentions

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Place Meanings Ascribed to Marine Settings: The Case of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

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More on conceptualizing & measuring leisure involvement

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Toward an integrated understanding of perceived biodiversity values and environmental conditions in a national park

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Environmental Worldview, Place Attachment, and Awareness of Environmental Impacts in a Marine Environment

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The social construction of a sense of place

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How involvement drives decision rules behind stated preferences for recreational-fisheries management.

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An Alternate Conceptualization of the Leisure Constraints Measurement Model

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An Augmented Norm Activation Model: The Case of Residential Outdoor Water Use

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Study Abroad Experiences and Global Citizenship: Fostering Proenvironmental Behavior

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Campers across the recreation opportunity spectrum: A comparative examination

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Satisfaction derived through leisure involvement and setting attachment

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Segmenting Festival Visitors Using Psychological Commitment

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Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Attachment to Natural Landscapes

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Multi-scale effects of land cover and urbanization on the habitat suitability of an endangered toad

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Mode Effect and Response Rate Issues in Mixed-Mode Survey Research: Implications for Recreational Fisheries Management

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Understanding the internal processes of behavioral engagement in a national park: A latent variable path analysis of the value-belief-norm theory

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Introduction to the Issues Confronting the Management of Urban-Proximate Natural Resource Recreation Areas

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Understanding how social networking influences perceived satisfaction with conference experiences

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An examination of the motivation - Involvement relationship

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Tools for assessing the psychometric adequacy of latent variables in conservation research.

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The Effect of Service Quality on Customer Loyalty within the Context of Ski Resorts

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Educational Travel and Global Citizenship

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Predicting compliance with an information-based residential outdoor water conservation program

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An examination of the relationship between leisure constraints, involvement, and commitmment

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An examination of recreationists' relationships with activities and settings

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A Process-Oriented Model of Decision-Making toward Landscape-Scale Prescribed Fire Implementation in the Southern Great Plains, USA.

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The Multidirectional Associations of Behavior, Identity, and Experience in Leisure

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A deconstruction of the I-M-L commitment segmentation of forest recreationists

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Understanding the Role of Identity in the Constraint Negotiation Process

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Values, Motivations, and Intentions to Engage in Proenvironmental Behavior

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The Influence of Home and Community Attachment on Firewise Behavior

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THE MEASUREMENT OF EMOTIONS ELICITED WITHIN FESTIVAL CONTEXTS: A PSYCHOMETRIC TEST OF A FESTIVAL CONSUMPTION EMOTIONS (FCE) SCALE

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Servant Leadership and Procedural Justice in the U.S. National Park Service: The Antecedents of Job Satisfaction

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The social nature of leisure involvement

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Characterizing style of participation among Texas inshore recreational fishing guides

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The Mediating Effect of Place Attachment on the Relationship between Festival Satisfaction and Loyalty to the Festival Hosting Destination

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Identifying place meanings ascribed to the Baekdu-Daegan trail in South Korea

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A place meaning scale for tropical marine settings.

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Examining the structure of the leisure involvement/place bonding relationship in three Sumter National Forest camping areas

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Place attachment and spending preferences in a local public park system: The case of corporate sponsorship

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Toward an integrated understanding of perceived biodiversity values and environmental conditions in a national park

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Assessing Exercise Involvement among Participants in Health and Fitness Centres

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Crowding, coping and place attachment in nature

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Evaluating the efficacy of an information-based residential outdoor water conservation program

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The Effect of Identity Conflict/Facilitation on the Experience of Constraints to Leisure and Constraint Negotiation

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Repositioning Identity in Conceptualizations of Human-Place Bonding

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Engaging park stewards through biodiversity discovery: Social outcomes of participation in bioblitzes

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Segmenting Forest Recreationists Using Their Commitment Profiles

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Introduction: New directions in conservation psychology at a critical time.

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A STUDY OF RECREATIONAL BOATING ON LAKE LYNDON B. JOHNSON, TEXAS

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Recollection Consistency of Festival Consumption Emotions

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Place-based motivations and normative beliefs predict pro-environmental behavior across involvement profiles

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Connecting to the trail: Natural spaces as places of healing

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Extending the Return Potential Model With a Descriptive Normative Belief Measure

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Exploring Outcomes Related To Nps Atbi/Bioblitz Participation

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National Park Service - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management; 2138 TAMU

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Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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A walk on the wild side becomes more than just exercise

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Harmon, Justin Tyler (2015-04). Sound Affects: The Role of Music in Affecting Quality of Life. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Jiang, Jingxian (2015-08). An Exploration of Recreational Crowding on Texas Inland Waterways. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Lee, Ji Yeon (2010-01). Investigating the Effect of Festival Visitors' Emotional Experiences on Satisfaction, Psychological Commitment, and Loyalty. Doctoral Dissertation.

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van Riper, Carena J (2014-05). Valuing the Invaluable: An Investigation of Outdoor Recreation Behavior, Perceived Values of Ecosystem Services, and Biophysical Conditions on Channel Islands National Park. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Smith, William (2012-07). Using Style of Participation among Texas Inshore Fishing Guides to Understand Displacement Behavior due to Perceived Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) Population Declines. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Katju, Dhananjaya (2018-05). The Political Ecology of Non-compliance: Encroachment, Illicit Resource Extraction, and Environmental Governance in the Manas Tiger Reserve (India). Doctoral Dissertation.

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Wallen, Kenneth Eric (2017-06). The Human Dimensions of Aquatic Invasive Species Management in Texas Freshwaters. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Tseng, Yung-Ping (2010-01). From Substitution to Coping: Developing and Testing a Leisure Constraints-Based Coping Model. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Jun, Jinhee (2010-01). Bringing Identity Theory into Leisure. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Go, Hanyoung (2012-07). Sense of Place Evoked by Interactive Maps. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Wynveen, Christopher J. (2010-10). Place Meaning and Attitudes toward Impacts on Marine Environments. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Eccles, Kate (2010-01). The Effects of Volunteering on the Development of Place Attachment and Stewardship of Natural Places. Master's Thesis.

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Yoon, Jee In (2012-07). An Examination of Coping Processes within the Context of Water-based Recreation. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Landon, Adam Christopher (2015-11). Evaluating Residential Water Conservation Attitudes, Behaviors, and Demand Management Policy Effectiveness in College Station, TX. Doctoral Dissertation.