Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation

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Values are the motivational goals that underpin individual and group decisions, attitudes, behaviours, often influence success of conservation. Existing studies have provided insight into perceptions attitudes stakeholders towards forest conservation values. However, there still contentions among different regarding values underpinning policies programs. It is unclear what matter most to people in Moreover, specific can motivate empower participate remain poorly understood. We examined these issues using human value orientation lens, a framework captures features relationships interactions with forests other users. Given need for programs align priorities local people, characterising multiple stakeholder perspectives help us better understand untangle conflicting interests diverse motivating influencing Working Nigeria, country one highest rates global deforestation, we use Q-methodology capture describe viewpoints identify three factors representing values, show heterogeneity held by stakeholders. The first factor explained 24 % study variance identified environmental management as essential. This viewpoint was largely hierarchical stakeholders, experts, staff. second 12 variance, cultural were predominantly third 13 economic mostly experts Our shows diversity types broad differences between their viewpoints. To enhance success, addition focussing on consensus decision- policy-makers should differentiate target needs

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Biological Conservation

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0006-3207', '1873-2917']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109734