Discursive barriers to voluntary biodiversity conservation: The case of Finnish forest owners

Tuomo Takala, Maria Brockhaus, Teppo Hujala, Minna Tanskanen, Ari Lehtinen, Jukka Tikkanen and Anne Toppinen

Forest Policy and Economics, 2022, vol. 136, issue C

Abstract: In many parts of the world, the success of biodiversity conservation strongly depends on the decisions of private landowners. These decisions are guided by the shared perceptions of the biodiversity problem. In this study, we applied a mixed method critical discourse analysis and examined how alternative discourses of biodiversity guide Finnish forest owners to maintain, or not maintain, biodiversity on their lands. Data collection combined a preliminary interview (n = 24) with a forest owner survey (n = 452).

Keywords: Discourse analysis; Cognitive dissonance; Biodiversity loss; Social conservation sciences; Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102681

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