Factors Influencing the Choice of Management Strategy among Small-Scale Private Forest Owners in Sweden

Eggers, Jeannette; Lämås, Tomas; Lind, Torgny; Öhman, Karin

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“…(Male, 1970, resident, Dalarna) It also emerged that the small size and/or multiple owners of land holdings acts as a constraint on efforts to enhance the forest's social values (cf. Eggers et al 2014). When a property is owned by two or more people, there is a risk that the owners do not have the same objectives for ownership or the same management strategies, or that decisions regarding forest management are blocked by one of the owners.…”

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Social Values of Forests and Production of New Goods and Services: The Views of Swedish Family Forest Owners

Bjärstig

Sténs

2017

Small-scale Forestry

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Forests are considered crucial assets for sustainable rural development, and contemporary forestry is an industry where production, environmental and social goals can-and should-be handled simultaneously. Swedish family forest owners (FFOs) are expected to both manage and conserve their forests for the benefit of the whole country, but there are contradictions between development and conservation and between traditional and alternative forms of utilization representing dilemmas in rural areas. Tensions between urban and rural areas, between demands on what to produce and protect, are often linked to the FFOs' views on opportunities for forest management. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse the extent to which FFOs perceive that social values have the ability to generate "new" goods and services as a supplement or alternative to traditional forestry, and to suggest how the forests might be managed to render high social values. Fiftyseven interviews were conducted with FFOs (both resident and non-resident). The results indicate that regardless of where they reside, FFOs have a multifunctional view of their forests and forest management, that the social values attached to forests can play an important role in development of local recreation-and forestbased tourism activities, and in this respect they can enhance sustainable rural Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-017-9379-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. development. It is, however, not obvious who might start and develop these businesses, since there seems to be a lack of interest among the FFOs themselves.

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Section: Perceived Obstacles and Limitationsmentioning

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Social Values of Forests and Production of New Goods and Services: The Views of Swedish Family Forest Owners

Bjärstig

Sténs

2017

Small-scale Forestry

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“…Private forest owners are heterogeneous when it comes to, for example, ownership motives, and not all of which are involved in working with their forest (Eggers et al 2014;Ní Dhubháin et al 2007). Since stage models (e.g.…”

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The importance of threat, strategy, and resource appraisals for long-term proactive risk management among forest owners in Sweden

Eriksson

2016

Journal of Risk Research

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In natural hazards management, it is important to understand what motivates people to act when they or their property are threatened by natural hazards. Despite the importance of both threat and coping appraisals for responses to threats, less is known about the relations between threat and coping appraisals when risk management is long term. The present study examined appraisals of threat (cognitive and emotional), personal resources (cost and self-efficacy), and strategies (response-efficacy) as predictors of proactive management responses (past behavior and future intention) among forest owners in Sweden by means of a questionnaire (n = 1482). A path analysis revealed that threat appraisals and response-efficacy were direct predictors of past risk management behavior and the intention to respond in the future. Appraisals of resources, including cost and self-efficacy, were indirectly -via forest susceptibility and threat appraisals -related to threat responses. Although the model displayed reasonable fit for both owners more and those less involved in forestry, the cognitive appraisals variable was not a significant predictor of responses among owners less involved in forestry. In the full sample, the examined model explained approximately 50% of the variance in threat appraisals, and 28 and 17% in future intention and past behavior, respectively. Theoretical implications for how threat and coping appraisals are related during long-term risk management, and practical implications for forest risk management, are discussed.

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“…For example, women may be excluded from informal groups. However, it is also possible that they may withdraw from active participation because they find it difficult to identify as a forest owner, consider themselves less informed about their forest, or both (Eggers et al 2014;Häggkvist et al 2014;Andersson and Lidestav 2016). Hence, differences in levels of management activities may be the result of differences in involvement.…”

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Explaining gender differences in private forest risk management

Eriksson

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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In many countries, lower levels of forest management activities have been observed among female forest owners compared to male owners. The present study examined potential explanations for gender differences in private forest risk management among forest owners in Sweden (n = 1482) using a questionnaire. Results from this study confirmed a slightly lower level of forest risk management among female owners in proactively combating damage caused by climate change and animal browsing when compared to their male counterparts. Further gender differences were revealed on a structural level. For example, female owners displayed higher levels of education and were more often non-resident owners and urban owners, as compared to their male counterparts. In addition, female and male owners differed regarding social-psychological variables (e.g. forest values and threat and coping appraisals). However the greatest gender difference was found in involvement in forest planning and forestry work. Even though gender differences were evident on multiple levels, involvement in forest issues and forest planning were found to be most important for explaining gender differences in forest risk management. By disentangling predictors of gender differences in private forest risk management, this study may contribute to a more strategic gender approach to forest risk governance. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Factors Influencing the Choice of Management Strategy among Small-Scale Private Forest Owners in Sweden

Cited by 83 publications

References 23 publications

Social Values of Forests and Production of New Goods and Services: The Views of Swedish Family Forest Owners

Social Values of Forests and Production of New Goods and Services: The Views of Swedish Family Forest Owners

The importance of threat, strategy, and resource appraisals for long-term proactive risk management among forest owners in Sweden

Explaining gender differences in private forest risk management

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