不同遊憩區域遊客對森林議題與環境態度認知之比較－－以新化與惠蓀林場為例

A Comparison of Visitors' Cognition on Forest Issues and Environmental Attitudes in Different Recreation Areas：The Case of Hsin-Hua and Hui-Sun Forest Stations

本研究旨在比較臺灣南部和中部不同遊憩區域遊客在森林議題與環境態度認知之差異，採用問卷調查方式分別對新化及惠蓀林場遊客進行資料蒐集，其中新化林場之研究成果已發表，本研究採用相同問卷繼續探討惠蓀林場遊客在森林議題與環境態度之認知外，並進而與新化林場遊客的分析結果進行比較，以深入瞭解不同遊憩區域遊客在森林議題與環境態度認知之差異性。研究結果顯示，兩個林場遊客的背景變項除了婚姻狀況未呈現差異性外，其餘各背景變項皆呈現顯著性差異，其中居住地區的變項在兩個林場間具有較強度的關係（Cramer's V=0.67），新化林場以南部地區的遊客佔大多數（72.5%），其次為北部地區（18.0%）及中部地區（7.4%）；而惠蓀林場的遊客則以中部地區佔多數（69.4%），其次為北部地區（15.3%）及南部地區（14.4%）。另外在森林的多元功能部分，兩個林場遊客在森林議題的認知上，其重要性的排序上相似度相近似，皆較重視森林的公益性議題，而對於森林的經濟性議題的分數則較低，但在細項上兩林場仍呈現部分差異；而以新生態典範量表進行統計兩個林場之得分結果相近（新化林場59.57分，惠蓀林場59.21分）。最後，在不同環境體驗背景遊客對於森林議題的認知部分，兩個林場遊客的分析比較結果仍有所分歧，推測其原因可能與森林議題所涵蓋範疇較為廣泛，或是在調查時未能詳細記錄遊客修習的課程種類或參加的活動內容有關。 The purpose of this study was to compare the differences of visitors' cognitions on forest issues and environmental attitudes in different recreation areas of south and central Taiwan. The data were collected from Hsin-Hua and Hui-Sun Forest Stations via on-site questionnaire surveys. This study analyzed the visitors' cognition on forest issues and environmental attitudes in Hui-Sun Forest Station and compared to the results of Hsin-Hua Forest Station. The results showed that the visitors' sociodemographics were significantly different except for marital status. We also found that visitors' living areas were significantly differences between settings (Cramer's V=0.67). Most of the visitors in HsinHua Forest Station were from the southern region of Taiwan (72.5%), followed by the northern region (18.0%) and central region (7.4%). In Hui-Sun Forest Station, most of the visitors were from the central region (69.4%), followed by the northern region (15.3%) and southern region (14.4%). For the forest multifunctions, visitors' cognition showed similar patterns in their ranking the importance between settings. Visitors ranked higher on the public welfare forest issues, and ranked lower on the economic forest issues. Visitors scored similarly on the environmental attitudes in the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) between Hsin-Hua Forest Station (score: 59.57) and Hui-Sun Forest Station (score: 59.21), implicating that the visitors had similar cognition in environmental attitudes in these two settings. Finally, the analysis showed visitors with different environmental experience background varied in their cognition of the forest issues between settings. Finally, the limitation for this study was that it was diffi cult to cover all of the items in forest issues and to detail records of visitors' courses and activities participated.