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NORM ACTIVATION THEORY AND HUMAN WASTE EDUCATION IN RECREATIONAL SETTINGS

Kristine Route: Norm Activation Theory and Human Waste Education in Recreational Settings

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NORM ACTIVATION THEORY AND

HUMAN WASTE EDUCATION IN

RECREATIONAL SETTINGS

http://edandjeanne.blogspot.com/2010/06/alaska‐2010‐valdez‐ak‐to‐cooper‐landing.html

WHY?

Monitoring

The Home‐made Toilet

Pile Counts 

Resource Damage

Fire Rings  

The Big Clean Up

Pooster # 1 

Pooster # 2 

Pooster # 3 

SURVEYS 

Norm Activation Theory

Ascription of Responsibility

• I feel a personal obligation to protect the water quality in Kenai Lake.

• We are all responsible for human waste impacts.

Awareness of Consequences

• Human waste, like animal waste, breaks down and does no harm to natural ecosystems.

• Human waste in the backcountry in NOT a health problem. 

General Values, Beliefs, & Attitudes

Acceptability of Human Waste

FUTURE