Journal article
Effects of information on the social acceptability of alternatives to clearfelling in australian wet eucalypt forests
RM Ford, KJH Williams, ID Bishop, JE Hickey
Environmental Management | Published : 2009
Abstract
The effects of viewing different types of information were investigated in people judging the social acceptability of alternative forest harvest systems. Approximately 500 Tasmanians were shown still-simulated images of four harvest systems (a clearfell system, two aggregated retention systems, and a selective system) and were asked to judge their acceptability. Individual interviews were conducted with 12 of the participants. It was anticipated that people holding different beliefs about the consequences of harvesting would have different responses to information. Cluster analysis was used to group participants according to these beliefs. Responses to still images were compared with respons..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The research described in this paper was part of a larger project, Social Acceptability of Forest Management Systems, funded by the Australian Research Council with industry contributions from Forestry Tasmania and the Bureau of Rural Sciences. It was approved by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee, Arts and Humanities sub-committee. Thanks to the many people who contributed to this project, particularly Daniel Loiterton and Trevor Webb. The authors acknowledge two anonymous examiners for their helpful comments on the PhD thesis (Ford 2006) that formed part of this research.