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Kristina Blennow

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No polarization–Expected Values of Climate Change Impacts among European Forest Professionals and Scientists

Författare

  • Johannes Persson
  • Kristina Blennow
  • Luisa Goncalves
  • Alexander Borys
  • Ioan Dutca
  • Jari Hynynen
  • Emilia Janeczko
  • Mariyana Lyobenova
  • Simon Martel
  • Jan Merganic
  • Katarina Merganicova
  • Mikko Peltoniemi
  • Michal Petr
  • Fernando Reboredo
  • Giorgio Vacchiano
  • Christopher Reyer
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Summary, in Swedish

The role of values in climate-related decision-making is a prominent theme of climate communication research. The present study examines whether forest professionals are more driven by values than scientists are, and if this results in value polarization. A questionnaire was designed to elicit and assess the values assigned to expected effects of climate change by forest professionals and scientists working on forests and climate change in Europe. The countries involved covered a north-to-south and west-to-east gradient across Europe, representing a wide range of bio-climatic conditions and a mix of economic–social–political structures. We show that European forest professionals and scientists do not exhibit polarized expectations about the values of specific impacts of climate change on forests in their countries. In fact, few differences between forest professionals and scientists were found. However, there are interesting differences in the expected values of forest professionals with regard to climate change impacts across European countries. In Northern European countries, the aggregated values of the expected effects are more neutral than they are in Southern Europe, where they are more negative. Expectations about impacts on timber production, economic returns, and regulatory ecosystem services are mostly negative, while expectations about biodiversity and energy production are mostly positive.

Avdelning/ar

  • Teoretisk filosofi
  • Vetenskap och Beprövad Erfarenhet (VBE)
  • Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna

Publiceringsår

2020-03-27

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volym

7

Issue

12

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

MDPI AG

Ämne

  • Climate Research

Nyckelord

  • Climate change impacts
  • Decision-Making
  • risk perception
  • homogeneity of expected values
  • value polarization
  • strength of expected values
  • climate change impacts
  • decision-making
  • risk perception
  • homogeneity of expected values
  • value polarization
  • strength of expected values

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • VBE

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2071-1050