Performance of Ontario's Benthos Biomonitoring Network: impacts on participants' social capital, environmental action, and problem-solving ability

• Published in: Environments Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 37 - 53
• Main Authors: Jones, F. Chris, Baird, Donald, Bowman, Michelle, Cameron, Graham, Craig, Brian, Cutler, Brad, Diamond, Joshua, Dmytrow, Nicole, Nicol, Martha, Parker, Jim, Pascoe, Tim, Vaughan, Hague, Whitelaw, Graham
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Waterloo Wilfrid Laurier University - Environments 01.08.2006; Wilfrid Laurier University, Geography and Environmental Studies
• Subjects: Aquatic ecosystems; Benthic zone; Benthos; Environmental aspects; Environmental monitoring; Invertebrates; Problem solving; Questionnaires; Social capital; Social networks; Ontario; Ontario Canada; Canada; Canada, Ontario

We used dummy variables to code nominal-scale categorical variables, which allowed us to investigate relationships between predictor and response variables (e.g., Zar 1984). Some categorical descriptor variables were re-coded as ordinal variables. This was done, for example, for question 37 ([Chris...