Professional judgment in non-industrial private forestry: Forester attitudes and social norms influencing biodiversity conservation

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 136-146

  Primmer, Eeva ^a   Karppinen, Heimo ^b  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attitude; Biodiversity conservation; Habitat delineation; Non industrial private forestry; Professional forester; Social norm; Theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; FINNISH; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY OPERATIONS; MULTIPLE FUNCTION; NON-INDUSTRIAL PRIVATE FORESTRY; NONINDUSTRIAL PRIVATE FORESTS; PEER NETWORK; PROFESSIONAL FORESTERS; RESPONSE RATE; SOCIAL NORM; SUBJECTIVE NORM; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; SURVEYS;

EID: 72149119474     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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