Public Attitudes toward Forest Policy Issues : An Analysis of Attitude Structure using Survey Data

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Recent research has been aimed at understanding public attitudes towards foresty policy. Although a number of surveys have gathered many responses to simple questionnaires about relevant issues, no studies have tried to explore the complex nature of public beliefs and thoughts on forest policy related issues. The purpose of the present paper is to further our understanding of public attitudes toward forest policy by examining the structure of the public's attitudes. Our focus is the public support of forest managment. The analysis using contingency tables and logit equations identified some typical internal relationships between attitude components in the respondent's overall attitude toward the issues. Our major findings were that firstly, agreement with public support for forest management by both monetary contribution and voluntary work was related to a belief in the need for silvicultural treatments to keep forests healthy, a belief in the consumer's responsibility, and appreciation of the values of the forest environment. Secondly, the people who supported voluntary work were a subset of the people who agreed to monetary support. Agreement with public support by voluntary work also seems to be characterised by particular kinds of personal tastes, particulary strong interests in nature.
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