People's attitudes towards deadwood in forest: evidence from the Ukrainian Carpathians

Oksana Pelyukh, Alessandro Paletto and Lyudmyla Zahvoyska
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Oksana Pelyukh: Department of Ecological Economics, Institute of Ecological Economics and Management, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine
Alessandro Paletto: Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Trento, Italy
Lyudmyla Zahvoyska: Department of Ecological Economics, Institute of Ecological Economics and Management, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine

Journal of Forest Science, 2019, vol. 65, issue 5, 171-182

Abstract: People's attitudes towards forest stand characteristics including deadwood are becoming increasingly relevant in sustainable forest management. The aim of this study is to investigate people's attitudes towards deadwood in forest. The study was carried out in the Rakhiv region (Ukraine) characterized by high importance of forest resources for the local community and economy. People's opinions were collected through the face-to-face administration of a questionnaire to 308 respondents. The survey investigated three aspects: importance of deadwood in forest; people's perceptions of positive and negative effects of deadwood in forest; effects of presence and amount of deadwood in different types of forest on people's aesthetical preferences. The results show that the majority of respondents consider deadwood as an important component of the forest, but generally they prefer intensively managed forests without deadwood. According to the respondents' opinions, the most important positive effect of deadwood is a contribution to stand dynamics, while the most important negative effect is an increasing risk of insects and diseases.

Keywords: sustainable forest management; standing dead trees; lying deadwood; people's perceptions and preferences; questionnaire survey; Rakhiv region (Ukraine) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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