Integrating basic human values with forest ecosystem services : pathways to sustainable forest management

Kobal Grum, Darja (author), Bončina, Andrej (author)

The article explores the intricate relationship between basic human values and forest ecosystem services (FES). The study highlights the critical role that forests play in providing essential services for biodiversity, forest products, climate stabilization and human well-being, and emphasizes the need to understand and integrate human values into forest management and planning. Through a novel approach, this study explores how the concept of “forest” can elicit considerations of fundamental human values that diverge from conventional classifications and measurements of forest values. The study uses a comprehensive methodology, including surveys and content analysis, to uncover the hierarchical structure of human values associated with forests. This approach enables the identification of fundamental values that remain constant despite situational variations. The main results reveal a hierarchical structure of values, with Apollonian values being more prevalent than Dionysian ones. The study shows significant differences in the importance attributed to different FES, reflecting underlying value differences between residents. The study makes a novel contribution by systematically examining the links between human values and FES and proposing a profound and sustainable approach to forest management that takes into account the psychological dimensions of human-forest interactions. The study suggests that recognizing and incorporating the intrinsic human values into forest ecosystem service frameworks can improve sustainable forest management practices and ultimately foster a deeper connection between people and the forest environment.

• Language: English
• Keywords: environmental psychology, multi-objective forest planning, value hierarchy, public perceptions of forests, multifunctional forestry
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty; FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 09.10.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 1-12
• Numbering: Vol. 15, art. 1444775
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163935
• UDC: 630*9:17.022.1
• ISSN on article: 1664-1078
• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1444775
• COBISS.SI-ID: 211404547
• Publication date in RUL: 14.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Frontiers in psychology
• Shortened title: Front. psychol.
• Publisher: Frontiers Media
• ISSN: 1664-1078
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519967513

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: okoljska psihologija, večciljno gozdnogospodarsko načrtovanje, hierarhija vrednot, javno dojemanje gozdov, večnamensko gozdarstvo

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P4-0059
• Name: Gozd, gozdarstvo in obnovljivi gozdni viri

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0110
• Name: Psihološki in nevroznanstveni vidiki kognicije