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General Public Acceptance of Forest Risk Management Strategies in Sweden: Comparing Three Approaches to Acceptability
Global change calls for more active approaches to forest risk management. To avoid unforeseen backlashes, it is necessary to examine the general public’s acceptance of the risk management strategies. By drawing on different theoretical approaches (threat and prevention, performance evaluations, and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5758928/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29386686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916517691325 |
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author | Eriksson, Louise Björkman, Christer Klapwijk, Maartje J. |
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description | Global change calls for more active approaches to forest risk management. To avoid unforeseen backlashes, it is necessary to examine the general public’s acceptance of the risk management strategies. By drawing on different theoretical approaches (threat and prevention, performance evaluations, and forest cognitions), the present study examines predictors of acceptability in the general public in three counties in Sweden (N = 1,026). As expected, appraisals of threat mediated the effect of threat awareness on belief in risk prevention, and when examining performance evaluations, trust in responsible actors influenced acceptability via procedural satisfaction. However, the threat and prevention approach and the performance evaluation approach only explained low levels of the variance in acceptability of the examined strategies. Nevertheless, stronger ecological forest values, and favoring broadleaved forests, were found to be important to the acceptability of proactively implementing a more diverse forest to meet the expected challenges associated with global climate change. |
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spelling | pubmed-57589282018-01-29 General Public Acceptance of Forest Risk Management Strategies in Sweden: Comparing Three Approaches to Acceptability Eriksson, Louise Björkman, Christer Klapwijk, Maartje J. Environ Behav Articles Global change calls for more active approaches to forest risk management. To avoid unforeseen backlashes, it is necessary to examine the general public’s acceptance of the risk management strategies. By drawing on different theoretical approaches (threat and prevention, performance evaluations, and forest cognitions), the present study examines predictors of acceptability in the general public in three counties in Sweden (N = 1,026). As expected, appraisals of threat mediated the effect of threat awareness on belief in risk prevention, and when examining performance evaluations, trust in responsible actors influenced acceptability via procedural satisfaction. However, the threat and prevention approach and the performance evaluation approach only explained low levels of the variance in acceptability of the examined strategies. Nevertheless, stronger ecological forest values, and favoring broadleaved forests, were found to be important to the acceptability of proactively implementing a more diverse forest to meet the expected challenges associated with global climate change. SAGE Publications 2017-02-10 2018-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5758928/ /pubmed/29386686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916517691325 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Eriksson, Louise Björkman, Christer Klapwijk, Maartje J. General Public Acceptance of Forest Risk Management Strategies in Sweden: Comparing Three Approaches to Acceptability |
title | General Public Acceptance of Forest Risk Management Strategies in Sweden: Comparing Three Approaches to Acceptability |
title_full | General Public Acceptance of Forest Risk Management Strategies in Sweden: Comparing Three Approaches to Acceptability |
title_fullStr | General Public Acceptance of Forest Risk Management Strategies in Sweden: Comparing Three Approaches to Acceptability |
title_full_unstemmed | General Public Acceptance of Forest Risk Management Strategies in Sweden: Comparing Three Approaches to Acceptability |
title_short | General Public Acceptance of Forest Risk Management Strategies in Sweden: Comparing Three Approaches to Acceptability |
title_sort | general public acceptance of forest risk management strategies in sweden: comparing three approaches to acceptability |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5758928/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29386686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916517691325 |
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