Public Preferences Across Europe for Different Forest Stand Types as Sites for Recreation

Edwards, David; Jay, Marion; Jensen, Frank Søndergaard; Lucas, Beatriz; Marzano, Mariella; Montagné, Claire; Peace, Andrew; Weiss, Gerhard

doi:10.5751/es-04520-170127

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“…Nonetheless, the results of this research are quite different compared with ones of Edwards et al (2012a and2012b). In this research it was found that the main factors that influence tourists' preferences are gender and geographical/cultural context, while the level of education, job, age and origin have a secondary importance in explaining the different perceptions.…”

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“…The comparison of the results of the two study areas shows that the cultural and geographical context affect experience and, consequently, influence personal preferences (Brown & Daniel 1986, Brunson 1996, Edwards et al 2012b, Hauru et al 2014. Edwards et al (2012a) showed that the relationship between deadwood and forest recreational value depends on multiple factors. The experts involved in the study by Edwards et al (2012a) highlighted that "a very low" and "a very high" volume of deadwood is seen negatively in comparison with a moderate amount.…”

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“…Edwards et al (2012a) showed that the relationship between deadwood and forest recreational value depends on multiple factors. The experts involved in the study by Edwards et al (2012a) highlighted that "a very low" and "a very high" volume of deadwood is seen negatively in comparison with a moderate amount. The level of respondents' knowledge about biodiversity and the relationship between coarse woody debris and biodiversity are key factors that influence the answers.…”

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Tourists’ perception of deadwood in mountain forests

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Abstract. In traditional forest management practices, the non-living woody biomass in forests was perceived negatively. Generally, deadwood was removed during the silvicultural treatments to protect forests against fire, pests and insects' attacks. In the last decades, the perception of forest managers regarding forest deadwood is changing. However, people's opinions about the presence of deadwood in forests have been little investigated. In light of this gap, the aim of the paper is to understand tourists' perception and opinions towards deadwood in mountain forests. The survey was carried out in two study areas: the first one in Italy and the second one in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A structured questionnaire was administered to a random sample of visitors (n = 156 in Italy, n = 115 in Bosnia-Herzegovina). Tourists' preferences were evaluated through a set of images characterized by a different amount of standing dead trees and lying deadwood. The collected data were statistically analyzed to highlight the preferred type of forests related to different forms of deadwood management (unmanaged forests, close-to-nature forests, extensively managed forests and intensively managed forests). The results show that both components of deadwood are perceived positively by tourists. More than 60% of respondents prefer unmanaged forests and close-to-nature managed forests, 40% of respondents prefer intensively managed forests in which deadwood is removed during the silvicultural treatments. Concerning the differences between the two study areas, a positive opinion on intensively managed forests was expressed by 40% of respondents in Italy and 22% in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Conversely, in both study areas a similar percentage of respondents preferred unmanaged forests and close-to-nature managed forests (about 40% Genova valley and 44% in Sarajevo Canton).

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Tourists’ perception of deadwood in mountain forests

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“…The biodiversity indicator relates older stands managed using low-impact silviculture systems to increases in deadwood and light penetration (Humphrey et al 2002(Humphrey et al , 2004 to stimulate regeneration and a field layer. The related recreation indicator (Edwards et al 2011) shows people respond positively, and perhaps sympathetically, to lowimpact silviculture systems by scoring highly stands which contain (some) bigger and older trees and with greater structural diversity (Edwards et al 2012). Low-impact silviculture systems improved the recreation indicator by 50 % at Gwydyr forest, compared to business as usual, because of its greater potential for transformation.…”

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“…The species diversity trajectory also improved recreation mainly through the substantial selection of broadleaved species. Although public perception suggests broadleaved stands have a similar recreation potential compared to conifers (Edwards et al 2012), the introduction of broadleaved stands within conifer forests highly influences forest structure, and structural diversity is scored more highly.…”

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To compare the provision of ecosystem services in plantation forests under alternative climate change adaptation management trajectories, we interpolated climatic variables from the UK 11-member regional climate models to use at high resolution in forest management situations. We used expert opinion to derive the links between coarse-scaled UK National Ecosystem Assessment scenarios and forest management alternatives (FMA) in a simulation of forest planning and management under climate change uncertainty. Nine indicators were used to compare the provision of forest ecosystem services from four alternative management trajectories based on FMA types under a changing climate. These show that by 2080 a 'business as usual' form of forest management at both Clocaenog and Gwydyr forests will become unsuitable under the two warmest and driest climate variants, marginal under four variants, and borderline suitable under the remaining five variants. This implies that if future forest policy requires the continued delivery of a wide range of ecosystem services, including, home grown timber, biodiversity, and the carbon mitigation benefit from woodlands, then there is 20-50 % chance of failing to deliver on some of these services, unless some adaptation measures to climatic impacts occurs, such as transformation to more diverse species forests managed using low-impact silviculture systems. We show that the benefits of achieving this will be to minimise most of the impacts that climate change would otherwise have on the delivery of ecosystem services from forests.

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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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Public Preferences Across Europe for Different Forest Stand Types as Sites for Recreation

Cited by 139 publications

References 13 publications

Tourists’ perception of deadwood in mountain forests

Tourists’ perception of deadwood in mountain forests

Comparing the provision of ecosystem services in plantation forests under alternative climate change adaptation management options in Wales

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

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