A value basis for the social acceptability of clearfelling in Tasmania, Australia

Public Perceptions and Acceptance of Intensive Forestry in Sweden

“…The purpose was to reveal if the consequences could be grouped according to underlying dimensions (factors) related to economic, recreational, and environmental consequences of forest management. Such dimensions have proved valid in previous studies of forest-related attitudes (e.g., Ford et al 2009;Eriksson 2012) and reduced the number of variables included in the following regression analysis. Because many respondents did not rate, or answered ''do not know'' about, current forest management, only three consequences per factor were included in the factor analysis (see Fig.…”

“…Therefore, future studies on the acceptance of intensive forestry could also benefit from investigating the influence of other attitudinal factors, e.g., value orientations, environmental concerns, and social norms, which have been related to forest preferences in previous studies (e.g., Vaske and Donnelly 1999;Ford et al 2009). Stern (2000) noted that general environmental concerns may have an important influence on non-activist environmentally significant behavior, such as the acceptance of intensive forestry.…”

“…Furthermore, studies using visual stimuli, such as pictures of forest stands were intensive forestry is implemented, might provide a deeper understanding about attitudes towards intensive forestry practices. Most studies of acceptance or preferences for forest alternatives involve evaluating visual quality (Ford et al 2009). Visualization tools may also be an effective method to increase public awareness about the possible impact of climate change and a forest policy involving intensive forestry (Sheppard 2005).…”

“…Some forest studies have linked preferences or forest management attitudes to cognitive aspects such as values and beliefs (e.g., Manning et al 1999;Ford et al 2009;Clement and Cheng 2011). For example, investigating the linkage between value orientation, beliefs about consequences of clearfelling, and acceptance of clearfelling, Ford et al (2009) concluded that values and beliefs are important underlying factors in social acceptability judgments. In relation to this, interviews of different stakeholders regarding intensive forestry in Sweden indicate that negative perceptions formed in past conflicts over the intensification of forestry may remain (Lindkvist et al 2012).…”

Discrimination of the Decision Structure of Suburban Park Users by Environmental Attitudes

“…Other factors, which have been included in previous studies, are related to politics or active participation in environmental organizations or the rural/urban character of the place where a household is located, in references [2][3] Working from another standpoint, sociologists and psychologists have developed various theoretical approaches, such as the Theory of Planned Behaviour in [4] and the Value-Belief Norm Theory in [5], to explain how environmental attitudes affect citizens' behaviours. Thus, most research has evaluated the environmental attitudes of individuals towards political participation in different plans of action; environmental conservation and willingness to pay for the use and conservation of different natural landscapes, see [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Therefore, environmental literature has focused on explaining the factors which condition individuals' environmental attitudes and the effect of environmental attitudes on different Behaviours have been widely studied.…”