Foraging for identity: the relationships between landscape activities and landscape identity after catastrophic landscape change

Butler, AndrewFaculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway,Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) (author)

Foraging for identity : the relationships between landscape activities and landscape identity after catastrophic landscape change

In this article, we deal with landscape activities in relation to changing landscape identity after a major wildfire in Sweden in 2014. The aim was to investigate the relationships between 22 landscape activities (before the fire) and 2 components (emotion and cognition) of landscape identity (before and after the fire). A total of 656 respondents living nearby the fire area participated in this study. Before the fire, a positive association was found between the activities of enjoying nature and foraging, and both components of landscape identity. This suggests that the more participants enjoyed nature and picked berries and mushrooms, the stronger their attachment to the landscape (emotion), and the more they remembered and reasoned about the landscape (cognition). Post fire, these relationships were found only between the two components of landscape identity and foraging. This implies a significant role of this type of activity for keeping alive' landscape identity.

Knez, Igor,1959-Högskolan i Gävle,Psykologi(Swepub:hig)ikz (author)
Åkerskog, AnnField Forest Research Institute, Uppsala, Sweden (author)
Sarlöv-Herlin, IngridSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Landskapsarkitektur, planering och förvaltning,Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management,Institutionen för landskapsarkitektur, planering och förvaltning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden(Swepub:slu)48555 (author)
Ode Sang, ÅsaSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Landskapsarkitektur, planering och förvaltning,Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management,Institutionen för landskapsarkitektur, planering och förvaltning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden(Swepub:slu)47973 (author)
Ångman, ElinSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för stad och land,Department of Urban and Rural Development,Institutionen för Stad och Land, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden(Swepub:slu)46673 (author)
Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, NorwayNorwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) (creator_code:org_t)
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

By the author/editor: Butler, Andrew; Knez, Igor, 1959 ...; Åkerskog, Ann; Sarlöv-Herlin, I ...; Ode Sang, Åsa; Ångman, Elin

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SOCIAL SCIENCES: SOCIAL SCIENCES; and Social and Econo ...; and Human Geography

By the university: University of Gävle; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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