National parks in the third world and associated national characteristics |
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Authors: | GARRY CHICK |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Recreation Parks and Tourism , The Pennsylvania State University University Park , Pennsylvania, USA gchick@psu.edu |
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Abstract: | Abstract For 102 third world countries, presence and absence of national parks is used as the dependent or classification variable in a discriminant analysis. Eleven variables suggestive of diverse tropical savanna habitats contribute to a single canonical discriminant function. Socioeconomic variables are poor contributors to the function. Seventy‐nine of the countries are properly classified in their group by the canonical discriminant function. Misclassification focuses on sub‐Saharan Africa where many countries have established parks under “improper”; conditions, and strong positive association with the function calls attention to Latin America. |
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Keywords: | third world discriminant analysis national parks sub‐Saharan Africa Latin America |
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