ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the content of beliefs associated with environmental concern, and whether ethnicity matters in the formation of such beliefs among Hispanics residing in South Florida. In South Florida, the immigration of Hispanic groups fleeing political and economic oppression in Central and South America and the Caribbean basin has been concentrated on a relatively small strip of land bordered by the ocean and the Everglades. A 1986 field survey contacted actual and potential Biscayne Bay boaters and National Park site users. The majority of the park users were pleasure boaters who lived in the greater Miami area (over 90 percent). Because of the types of recreational boating and fishing available in the park, many more males (87 pet) than females happened to be interviewed in the survey. The male: female sex ratio for Hispanics and non-Hispanics was 11:1 and 7:1 with males dominant in both groups.
