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For a definitive version of this work, please refer to the published source: https://doi.org/10.5204/rep.eprints.93606 1 SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH FINAL REPORT AUGUST 2015 Prepared by Dr Kim Johnston and Dr Amanda Beatson QUT Business School Queensland University of Technology doi: 10.5204/rep.eprints.93606 © The Author(s). 2015 This report is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Page 1 2 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.0 Project Aims ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 3.0 Guiding Research Questions ............................................................................................................................. 5 4.0 Ethical Considerations and Funding ................................................................................................................. 5 5.0 Method ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 5.1 Instrument .................................................................................................................................................... 6 5.2 Sampling and Procedure ............................................................................................................................... 6 5.3 Analysis ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 5.4 Respondents – Demographic profiles ........................................................................................................... 6 5.5 Education ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 6.0 Catchment Areas .............................................................................................................................................. 8 7.0 Survey Constructs - total sample ...................................................................................................................... 8 8.0 Results and Discussion ...................................................................................................................................... 9 8.1 Local waterway access, use and satisfaction ................................................................................................ 9 8.2 Planning ...................................................................................................................................................... 11 8.3 Intrinsic regulation ...................................................................................................................................... 11 8.4 Integrated regulation .................................................................................................................................. 11 8.5 Identified regulation ................................................................................................................................... 11 8.6 External regulation ..................................................................................................................................... 11 8.7 Nature relatedness ..................................................................................................................................... 12 8.8 Environmental beliefs ................................................................................................................................. 12 8.9 Environmental Concern .............................................................................................................................. 12 8.10 Subjective Norms ...................................................................................................................................... 12 8.11 Personal Norms ........................................................................................................................................ 12 8.12 Attitude toward the behaviour ................................................................................................................. 13 8.13 Perceived behavioural control .................................................................................................................. 13 8.14 Motivation ................................................................................................................................................ 13 8.15 Ability ........................................................................................................................................................ 13 8.16 Opportunity .............................................................................................................................................. 13 8.17 Value for money ....................................................................................................................................... 14 8.18 Behavioural Intention ............................................................................................................................... 14 8.19 Waterway usage ....................................................................................................................................... 15 8.20 Barriers to use ........................................................................................................................................... 17 8.21 Water Literacy .......................................................................................................................................... 17 8.22 Stewardship behaviours ........................................................................................................................... 18 8.23 Travel to waterways – distance and type preferences ............................................................................. 19 Page 2 3 8.24 Ranking – Factors impacting local waterways .......................................................................................... 20 8.25 Planning Correlations................................................................................................................................ 21 8.26 Economic indicators - Willingness to pay ................................................................................................. 21 8.27 Correlations between willingness to pay and frequency and type of water use ..................................... 21 8.28 Satisfaction and nature relatedness ......................................................................................................... 22 8.29 Satisfaction and Use ................................................................................................................................. 23 8.30 Satisfaction and water literacy ................................................................................................................. 23 9. Catchment Reporting – Panel data only ........................................................................................................... 24 9.1 Noosa Catchment ....................................................................................................................................... 25 9.2 Maroochy Catchment ................................................................................................................................. 29 9.3 Mooloolah Catchment ................................................................................................................................ 33 9.4 Pumicestone Catchment ............................................................................................................................. 37 9.5 Caboolture Catchment................................................................................................................................ 41 9.6 Pine Catchment .......................................................................................................................................... 45 9.7 Lower Brisbane Catchment ......................................................................................................................... 49 9.8 Oxley Catchment ........................................................................................................................................ 53 9.9 Redlands Catchment ................................................................................................................................... 57 9.10 Logan Catchment ...................................................................................................................................... 61 9.11 Albert Catchment.....................................................................................................................................