Management of Recreation and Nature Based Tourism in European Forests

Childhood experience in forest recreation practices: Evidence from nine European countries

“…The cross-country variation could be attributable to different factors which this study does not consider. Perhaps, it could be related to the differences in forest cover of the countries, recreational accessibilitywhere all aspects may not be captured by the distance variable, forest land entitlement, recreational access policies, availability of recreational facilities, or different cultural associations with forests (see Bell, Montarzino, Aspinall, Penēze, & Nikodemus, 2009;Bell, Nikodemus, Peneze, & Kruze, 2009;Bell, Tyrväinen, Sievänen, Pröbstl, & Simpson, 2007;Edwards et al, 2012;Pröbstl, Wirth, Elands, & Bell, 2010).…”

The effect of information transfer related to soil biodiversity on Flemish citizens' preferences for forest management

“…This could be linked to the information treatment that included explicit links between forest management practices and soil biodiversity at the end of the video, while the importance of soil biodiversity for the delivery of ecosystem services was discussed at the beginning of the video. Alternatively, mushroom and berry picking is not culturally embedded in the Flemish society, compared to other European countries such as Finland or Romania (Pröbstl et al, 2010). Moreover, citizens could have more feeling with ecosystem services as they are the end-product of forest management decisions to society, while citizens are less familiar with specific management practices and biodiversity aspects, and hence information could potentially have a larger effect on their valuation.…”