Citizens' view of legitimacy in the context of Finnish forest policy

Valkeapää, Annukka; Karppinen, Heimo

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2013.01.004

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“…According to Karppinen and Hänninen (2000), the majority of Finnish forest owners resemble American timber sellers with timber production objectives. Valkeapää and Karppinen (2013) found that forest owners considered forest policy in general to be more acceptable than other citizens did. Forest owners felt that forest policy functions more properly concerning overall legitimacy.…”

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Do forest owners share the public’s values? An application of Schwartz’s value theory

Karppinen¹,

Korhonen²

2013

Silva Fenn.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences in value priorities between Finnish forest owners and the general public. A conclusion is drawn whether and to what extent value changes in society are reflected in forest owners' values and objectives, and, finally, in their actual forestry behavior. In addition, the study highlights the differences in value priorities among forest owners in various demographic groups. The data set used in this study was based on a nationwide mail survey on Finnish non-industrial private forest owners conducted in 2009 and consisting of 2116 observations of forest owners. Schwartz's value theory was a good fit for testing the value priorities of forest owners. The three most important values were benevolence, security and conformity, both among the forest owners and the public. Tradition was ranked the fourth most important value by the forest owners, but very low by the public. The forest owners ranked universalism slightly lower than the public in general. This difference was clearly greater when the female forest owners were compared to women in the whole population. The probability of a forest owner belonging to the Softies (high emphasis on universalism and benevolence) increased with age and was higher for the female owners and the owners with recreational or multiple objectives compared to the indifferent owners. The multiobjective owners and recreationists had relatively similar value profiles. The previous literature suggests that multiobjective owners are the most active forest owner group and that recreationists and indifferent owners are the most passive groups in their timber supply behavior. The relationship between values and forestry behavior thus remains ambiguous.

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“…However, some studies have been conducted concerning differences in attitudes (Karppinen and Hänninen 2000) and the perceived legitimacy of environmental and forest policy (Valkeapää and Karppinen 2013).…”

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Do forest owners share the public’s values? An application of Schwartz’s value theory

Karppinen¹,

Korhonen²

2013

Silva Fenn.

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“…Similar problems are reported in ratio-scale pairwise comparisons based on other types of surveys (Sironen et al 2013), and other measures have been presented for evaluating the inconsistencies (Peláez and Lamata 2003;Ramík and Korviny 2010) and uncertainties related to the process overall (see Alho and Kangas 1997), differing from those originally proposed by Saaty (1980). According to the earlier studies on the preferences on forest use, the majority of citizens, regardless of forest ownership, do not approve of clearcutting (Valkeapää and Karppinen 2013). Also, according to pairwise comparisons of edited photographs of various forest management alternatives (Silvennoinen et al 2002;Tönnes et al 2004;Ribe 2009), the scenic values in clearcut forests are consistently lower than in forests grown in denser, uneven-aged structures.…”

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Reconstructing forest canopy from the 3D triangulations of airborne laser scanning point data for the visualization and planning of forested landscapes

Ruotsalainen

2017

Annals of Forest Science

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& Key messageWe present a data-driven technique to visualize forest landscapes and simulate their future development according to alternative management scenarios. Gentle harvesting intensities were preferred for maintaining scenic values in a test of eliciting public's preferences based on the simulated landscapes. & Context Visualizations of future forest landscapes according to alternative management scenarios are useful for eliciting stakeholders' preferences on the alternatives. However, conventional computer visualizations require laborious tree-wise measurements or simulators to generate these observations. & Aims We describe and evaluate an alternative approach, in which the visualization is based on reconstructing forest canopy from sparse density, leaf-off airborne laser scanning data. & Methods Computational geometry was employed to generate filtrations, i.e., ordered sets of simplices belonging to the three-dimensional triangulations of the point data. An appropriate degree of filtering was determined by analyzing the topological persistence of the filtrations. The topology was further utilized to simulate changes to canopy biomass, resembling harvests with varying retention levels. Relative priorities of recreational and scenic values of the harvests were estimated based on pairwise comparisons and analytic hierarchy process (AHP). & Results The canopy elements were co-located with the tree stems measured in the field, and the visualizations derived from the entire landscape showed reasonably realistic, despite a low numerical correspondence with plot-level forest attributes. The potential and limitations to improve the proposed parameterization are discussed. & Conclusion Although the criteria to evaluate the landscape visualization and simulation models were not conclusive, the results suggest that forest scenes may be feasibly reconstructed based on data already covering broad areas and readily available for practical applications.

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“…Furthermore, we investigated how controversial clear-cuttingbased forest management practices were perceived by respondents (see also Valkeapää and Karppinen, 2013). Based on our results, the choice of traditional clear-cutting -based forest management was seen as an appropriate regime in commercial forests by 67% of respondents.…”

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Challenges of municipal greening and multifunctional forest management: The case of Finland

Mattila

Häyrinen

Tervo

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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Citizens' view of legitimacy in the context of Finnish forest policy

Cited by 57 publications

References 26 publications

Do forest owners share the public’s values? An application of Schwartz’s value theory

Do forest owners share the public’s values? An application of Schwartz’s value theory

Reconstructing forest canopy from the 3D triangulations of airborne laser scanning point data for the visualization and planning of forested landscapes

Challenges of municipal greening and multifunctional forest management: The case of Finland

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