Effect of the season and forest management on the visual quality of the nature-based tourism environment: a case from Finnish Lapland

Tyrväinen, Liisa; Silvennoinen, Harri; Hallikainen, Ville

doi:10.1080/02827581.2016.1241892

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“…Tyrväinen et al. (), however, found that open views containing few trees were of low value for tourism in Finnish Lapland, although clearly expectations and preferences for habitats will vary regionally. In the Thetford Forest region, open space is clearly a highly valued component of the landscape.…”

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“…Forest openings, particularly where they are openings of other natural habitats rather than clearfell areas (as is the case with much open space in Thetford Forest), are generally found to be valued, as are forest landscapes that offer views of surroundings (Gundersen & Frivold, 2008;Gundersen et al, 2016). Tyrväinen et al (2017), however, found that open views containing few trees were of low value for tourism in Finnish Lapland, although clearly expectations and preferences for habitats will vary regionally. In the Thetford…”

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“…There is a large body of literature exploring the aesthetic and recreational values of forested landscapes. For example, many studies have shown that people generally prefer naturalistic forests and larger trees (Blasco et al, 2009;Gundersen & Frivold, 2008;Irvine & Herrett, 2018;Tyrväinen, Silvennoinen, & Hallikainen, 2017). However, deadwood is often viewed unfavourably, and the size of clear-cuts correlates negatively with recreational value (Edwards et al, 2012a;Gundersen, Clarke, Dramstad, & Fjellstad, 2016;Gundersen & Frivold, 2011).…”

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“…However, deadwood is often viewed unfavourably, and the size of clear-cuts correlates negatively with recreational value (Edwards et al, 2012a;Gundersen, Clarke, Dramstad, & Fjellstad, 2016;Gundersen & Frivold, 2011). In Finland, seasonality has also been shown to be important, with snow cover increasing the suitability of commercial forest stands for recreation (Tyrväinen et al, 2017). Generally, people seem to prefer broadleaved to conifer forests, and mixtures to monocultures (Almeida, Rösch, & Saha, 2018;Felton et al, 2016;Jensen & Koch, 2004;Quine et al, 2011;Schraml & Volz, 2009;Termansen, McClean, & Jensen, 2013).…”

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Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features

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Cultural ecosystem services are undeniably important, yet are typically neglected in land management decisions due to a suite of intractable challenges: they are highly complex, localised, and inextricably associated with landscape features. However, to incorporate the ecosystem services framework into land management, decision‐makers need the tools to disentangle the effects of land use from other factors. This is a major challenge for ecosystem services research. Forestry is a widespread land use that has considerable potential to deliver a broad range of ecosystem services, although this requires careful management planning. Additionally, modern production forestry is undergoing a period of rapid change in the face of a plethora of challenges, such as climate change and disease. To increase cultural ecosystem services delivery from forests, managers need tools to understand the implications of different management options. In this paper, we directly test how land use affects cultural ecosystem services. We use a new approach that recognises the underlying complexity of cultural ecosystem services but produces easily interpretable results that are locally relevant and directly applicable to land management. By combining participatory geographic information systems (GIS) and a novel site matching technique, we relate cultural values explicitly to land management, while accounting for the influence of landscape features. Applying this new method to a major UK forest site, we conducted a large survey to gather participatory GIS data points. We showed that land management significantly affected cultural ecosystem service values and were able to make a series of practical forest management recommendations. Notably, a greater diversity of tree species would improve cultural value, and open space is important within the forest landscape. This approach is highly flexible and can be applied to any type of landscape. It allows cultural ecosystem services to be fully integrated into land management decisions to formulate the best management strategy to maximise ecosystem service delivery. A plain language summary is available for this article.

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“…In a previous study of ours, psychological relaxation was observed in male and female participants; however, the study was conducted during a period without snow cover, and any additional effects of snow cover have not been examined before [17]. Participants in preference tests positively evaluated winter landscapes of forests with snow, but the potential of this environment to induce psychological relaxation has not been determined [18]. Thus, the effectuality of forest recreation on psychological relaxation was tested in the current study.…”

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The Effect of Recreation in a Snow-Covered Forest Environment on the Psychological Relaxation of Young Females

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Lukowski²,

Omelan³

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Forest recreation can be successfully conducted for the purpose of psychological relaxation, as has been proven in previous scientific studies. During the winter in many countries, when snow cover occurs frequently, forest recreation (walking, relaxation, photography, etc.) is common. Nevertheless, whether forest therapy conducted in a forest environment with a snow cover will also have a positive effect on psychological indicators remains unknown. Furthermore, male subjects frequently participate in forest therapy experiments, whereas females are rarely involved. Thus, in this study, the effectuality of forest recreation during winter and with snow cover was tested on 32 young females. For these reasons, the experiment involved 15-minute periods of relaxation in a forest environment or in an urban environment, in addition to a pre-test under indoor conditions. Four psychological questionnaires (POMS, PANAS, ROS, SVS) were administered to participants before and after interventions. Results showed that participants’ levels of negative mood, as measured by different aspects of the POMS questionnaire (tension-anxiety, anger-hostility, depression-dejection, confusion, fatigue), decreased after exposure to the forest environment. In contrast, both tension-anxiety and anger-hostility increased in the urban environment. The indicator of negative affect from the PANAS questionnaire also increased after exposure to the urban environment, whereas the indicator of positive affect based on PANAS was higher in the forest environment than in the urban environment. Restorativeness and subjective vitality exhibited higher values after exposure to the forest environment in comparison to those from the control and pre-test. The changes in these indicators demonstrates that forest recreation in the snow during winter can significantly increase psychological relaxation in young females, as well as showing that recreation can be successfully conducted under these winter conditions.

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“Going out to get in”—Roles of forest conflicts in bottom‐linked environmental governance progressing toward socio‐political innovations

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Social innovation literature focuses commonly on roles of cooperation in addressing co-evolution of civil society initiatives and state-based governance toward sustainable solutions. However, roles of conflicts in driving social change are scarcely addressed in social innovation literature. We elaborated a concept of bottom-linked environmental governance, which can take place either via collaboration, or by conflict, and which can progress toward socio-political innovations. We show this progression by examining two longitudinal cases on forest controversies in Northern Finland. These are the cases of Inari and Muonio. They are characterized by dynamic processes of conflicts and collaboration between state-based organizations (e.g., Finnish forestry enterprise of Metsähallitus), civil society actors (e.g., reindeer herders, nature-based tourism entrepreneurs and environmental nongovernmental organizations). We conducted a qualitative deductive-inductive content analysis on the study cases and uncovered a set of "going out to get in" strategies by civil society actors, emerging from frustration on state-based participatory processes, and consisting of open disputes and pressure strategies outside the participatory processes to gain a seat and power at negotiation tables. Metsähallitus often responded by seeking to maintain its control over forest decisions. The interplay between these strategies led to continuous open disputes and finally to socio-political innovations (e.g., comanagement arrangement). The findings lead us to discuss reasons for prolonged disputes, the question of whether sociopolitical innovations can benefit all, considerations on power relations, strategies, and counter responses, all being relevant more broadly, for both, social innovation research and decision-making enabling sociopolitical innovations.

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Effect of the season and forest management on the visual quality of the nature-based tourism environment: a case from Finnish Lapland

Cited by 68 publications

References 30 publications

Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features

Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features

The Effect of Recreation in a Snow-Covered Forest Environment on the Psychological Relaxation of Young Females

“Going out to get in”—Roles of forest conflicts in bottom‐linked environmental governance progressing toward socio‐political innovations

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