Legitimacy and empowerment: combining two conceptual approaches for explaining forest owners' willingness to cooperate in nature conservation

Paloniemi, Riikka; Vainio, Annukka

doi:10.1080/1943815x.2011.576682

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“…Such initiatives cannot succeed if they are not supported by discourses that facilitate cooperation (Mahon et al, 2010;Paloniemi & Vainio, 2011). In this study, forest owners used mostly the discursive strategies that expressed uncooperative power relations, namely "submitting" and "questioning".…”

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“…The Forest Act is implemented by the Regional Forestry Centres (Alueellinen Metsäkeskus), and the Nature Conservation Act by the regional Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY-keskus). Cooperation between these two bodies has been promoted in the twenty-first century with the launch of "METSO", the national Forest Biodiversity Program for southern Finland (Finnish Government, 2008); before "METSO" cooperation was rather unusual in the context of forest biodiversity conservation (Paloniemi and Varho, 2009;Paloniemi and Vainio, 2011).…”

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Forest owners and power: A Foucauldian study on Finnish forest policy

Vainio

Paloniemi

2012

Forest Policy and Economics

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Section: The Context Of Finnish Forest and Nature Conservation Policymentioning

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Forest owners and power: A Foucauldian study on Finnish forest policy

Vainio

Paloniemi

2012

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…Statements were constructed on the basis of earlier research on forest conservation instruments (Parkhurst et al. ; Mayer & Tikka ; Paloniemi & Tikka ; Paloniemi & Vainio ; Primmer et al. ).…”

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“…Where landowners oppose centrally designed conservation plans, voluntary contracting can increase acceptance of conservation plans, because it respects landowner autonomy over land use decisions (Paloniemi & Tikka ; Paloniemi & Vainio ). Thus, the prioritization of voluntary conservation actions should consider the willingness of landowners to participate in voluntary contracts.…”

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Integrating Social and Ecological Knowledge for Targeting Voluntary Biodiversity Conservation

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Hujala

Rantala

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CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Improving the effectiveness of voluntary biodiversity policies requires developing trans-disciplinary conservation plans that consider social constraints to achieving ecological objectives. We integrated data on landowners' willingness to participate in voluntary conservation efforts with ecological data on conservation values in a spatial prioritization, and found that doing so considerably reduced the loss in conservation value caused by landowners' reluctance to participate. We learned that conducting prioritization with stakeholder input gained through dialogue during field visits could be beneficial for increasing the legitimacy of conservation plans with stakeholders. Thus, in addition to developing a methodology for using data on stakeholder perceptions of conservation in spatial prioritization, our study suggests that engaging landowners and other stakeholders in the conservation prioritization process will improve the success of conservation plans.

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“…Research on legitimacy has focused mainly on citizens' compliance with the authorities. Instead, research looking for processes where citizens could have a real control of political decision-making together with politicians is still missing in social psychological research on legitimacy (see Paloniemi & Vainio, 2011a, 2011b. A high level of trust and satisfaction with a political system can reduce personal participation in forest and environmental policy by transferring the sense of responsibility from the self to the system.…”

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Why are Forest Owners Satisfied with Forest Policy Decisions? Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, and Perceived Uncertainty

Vainio

2011

Soc Just Res

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The perceptions of 460 Finnish forest owners regarding national forest policy were examined with a questionnaire measuring institutional legitimacy, procedural justice, perceived uncertainty, and satisfaction with decisions. Research hypotheses, which were derived from the group-value theory and the system justification theory, were tested. The results showed that high institutional legitimacy reduced the effect of procedural justice on the satisfaction with political decisions. Procedural justice predicted the acceptance of decisions only when institutional legitimacy was low. Moreover, perceived uncertainty increased the perception of legitimacy. The implications of these findings for a social psychological theory of legitimacy and policymaking are briefly discussed.

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Legitimacy and empowerment: combining two conceptual approaches for explaining forest owners' willingness to cooperate in nature conservation

Cited by 22 publications

References 44 publications

Forest owners and power: A Foucauldian study on Finnish forest policy

Forest owners and power: A Foucauldian study on Finnish forest policy

Integrating Social and Ecological Knowledge for Targeting Voluntary Biodiversity Conservation

Why are Forest Owners Satisfied with Forest Policy Decisions? Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, and Perceived Uncertainty

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