Visitors’ Environmental Attitudes and Their Value Judgments of Landscape Resources in the Kenting National Park

• Main Authors: Ying-Hsuan Wang, 王盈璇
• Other Authors: Win-Jing Chung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65001394236829423412

碩士 === 東海大學 === 景觀學系 === 95 === Abstract The purpose of national parks is to preserve a country's unique landscape, wildlife, and cultural heritage for the benefit of present and future generations, and to serve as resources for science, education, recreation, and enlightenment. The Kenting National Park is the first national park locating at the southern tip of Taiwan. It have abundant marine resources and land resource, is the important tropical ecological and landscape resources. But some improper actives and misfit managements derive from people cognitive deficit landscape resources of the national park. People and tour use resources to develop economic activities, which make a lot of landscape resources disappear or destroy gradually. Landscape resources have certain values, but they have to understand value from the market. This research uses the contingent valuation method that can estimate the total economic values of any environmental type to understand visitors’ value judgments of landscape resources in the Kenting National Park. And use Likert scaling methods and questionnaires to know visitors’ cognition of landscape resources and environmental attitudes of the Kenting National Park, and to discuss the relation between them. The result after the investigation, find visitors have high cognition of landscape resources and that hold positive environmental attitudes in the Kenting National Park. And different visitors' attributes, for instance: Age, education degree, careers, personal monthly income, payout of entertainments and information source…etc., that have difference of cognition of landscape and environmental attitude of the Kenting National Park conspicuously. And on average about 70% of the visitors like to contribute to the landscape resources of the Kenting National Park, including Dajianshan, tropical strand forest, bird of passage, Kenting Uplifted Coral Reef, and sandy beach, each visitor would like to offer the landscape resource maintenance expense of about NT.331 of Dajianshan, about NT.348 of tropical strand forest, about NT. 392 of bird of passage, about NT.360 of Kenting Uplifted Coral Reef , about NT.362 of sandy beach and resource maintenance expense of whole landscape is about NT.819 every year on average. The results to prefer some suggestions of landscape design and planning in the Kenting National Park to managers and designers, and reference of follow-up study. And do relevant comments and bases of the environmental education to visitors as the follow-up of the Kenting National Park.