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Swedish private forest owners’ perceptions and intentions with respect to adopting exotic tree species
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- Hemström, Kerstin, 1979- (author)
- Mittuniversitetet,Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande,SBER
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- Mahapatra, Krushna (author)
- Mittuniversitetet,Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för bygg- och energiteknik (BE),SBER,Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande,Linnaeus University, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden
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- Gustavsson, Leif (author)
- Mittuniversitetet,Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för bygg- och energiteknik (BE),SBER,Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande,Linnaeus University, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden
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- 2013-02-06
- 2013
- English.
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In: European Journal of Forest Research. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1612-4669 .- 1612-4677. ; 132:3, s. 433-444
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- Swedish forest growth can be increased through intensive forestry practices, enabling an increased use of forest biomass for climate-change mitigation. However, the diffusion of such practices depends on the forest owners’ adoption of them. We study Swedish private forest owners’ perceptions and intentions with respect to increasing forest growth by adopting exotic tree species. The results of a mail-in questionnaire survey show that although a majority of forest owners desire increasing forest growth, most owners have only a basic understanding of exotic tree species and a smaller proportion is interested in adopting them. The intention to adopt exotics seems to depend on the perceived performance of the species with respect to the economic aspects of forest management rather than on environmental or recreational concerns. Whereas a knowledge gap among the private forest owners regarding how to increase forest growth is implied, forest owners with higher self-rated knowledge of forestry and exotics have stronger intentions to adopt such species.
Subject headings
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Lantbruksvetenskap, skogsbruk och fiske -- Skogsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries -- Forest Science (hsv//eng)
- TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER -- Naturresursteknik -- Energisystem (hsv//swe)
- ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY -- Environmental Engineering -- Energy Systems (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Private forest owners
- Intensive forestry
- Perceptions
- Exotics
- Sweden
- Forestry and Wood Technology
- Skog och träteknik
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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