College of Biodiversity Conservation, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 5;19(15):9630. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159630.
Being responsible for ensuring nature preservation, environmental interpretation raises people's awareness of nature preservation as a form of public service, and enhance their environmentally responsible behavior. Based on the flow theory, this study proposes a conceptual model of environmental interpretation impacts on visit motivation, ecological experience, environmental attitudes, and environmental behaviors. Selecting the users (visitors) of environmental interpretation at Potatso National Park in Shangri-La, Yunnan Province, China, we obtained 568 valid questionnaires and used Amos software to analyze a structural equation model to verify the model. The results indicate that the environmental interpretation plays a significant role in enriching the public's ecological experience, which is an intermediary variable in which visiting motivation influences environmental attitudes and guides environmentally responsible behavior. The research suggests that national parks should strengthen the environmental interpretation facilities experiential and available, and adjust the configuration of the existing interpretation media in the three-dimensional structure of theme, space, and time, considering the motivation of the public visits, enriching ecological experience, and inspiring service details.
负责自然保护工作的环境解说可以提高人们的自然保护意识，将其作为一种公共服务形式，并增强他们的环境责任感。本研究基于流动理论，提出了一个环境解说对游客动机、生态体验、环境态度和环境行为影响的概念模型。选取中国云南省香格里拉普达措国家公园的环境解说使用者（游客），共获得 568 份有效问卷，使用 Amos 软件对结构方程模型进行分析验证。结果表明，环境解说在丰富公众的生态体验方面发挥了重要作用，生态体验是一个中介变量，游客动机影响环境态度，并引导环境负责任的行为。研究建议国家公园应加强环境解说设施的体验性和可用性，并在主题、空间和时间的三维结构中调整现有解说媒体的配置，考虑公众的参观动机、丰富生态体验并激发服务细节。
