Exploring how community context informs variations in local perceptions of forest disturbance and land management in Colorado over time

IF 5.4 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Environmental and Sustainability Indicators Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI:10.1016/j.indic.2024.100439
Hua Qin , Jamie Vickery , Christine Sanders , Courtney Flint , Hannah Brenkert-Smith
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Place-based socio-economic and biophysical context has been viewed as an essential driver in shaping perceptions of forest risks and land management. Growing evidence of the importance of diverse community context in forested landscapes sets the stage to further consider how people's understandings of their local environment influence natural resource management preferences. However, research to date largely lacks considerations of how community context informs social responses to long-term environmental change over time. Using the mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak in Colorado, we analyze and compare longitudinal interview and survey data collected from nine north-central Colorado communities to understand the relationships between community context and changing perceptions of forest disturbance and engagement with land management. Both qualitative and quantitative findings show that community context framed and continues to inform variations in local perceptions of the MPB outbreak and forest management. Interviews with key informants provided rich narratives on different context-based trajectories in local residents' perceptional responses, while survey data allowed for general patterns of evolving community variations (e.g., stable or clearer community clustering, reduced community differences) to be uncovered. We explore methodological implications for community indication and future directions for understanding differing community responses to slow-moving environmental change. Incorporating knowledge of changing local contexts and variations can also help practitioners advance toward more dynamic and effective management strategies.

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探索社区背景如何影响科罗拉多州当地人对森林干扰和土地管理的认识随时间的变化
以地方为基础的社会经济和生物物理环境被视为形成森林风险和土地管理观念的重要驱动力。越来越多的证据表明,森林景观中不同的社区环境非常重要,这为进一步考虑人们对当地环境的理解如何影响自然资源管理偏好创造了条件。然而,迄今为止的研究在很大程度上缺乏对社区环境如何影响社会对长期环境变化的反应的考虑。利用科罗拉多州爆发的山松甲虫(MPB)疫情,我们分析并比较了从科罗拉多州中北部九个社区收集到的纵向访谈和调查数据,以了解社区背景与不断变化的森林干扰认知和参与土地管理之间的关系。定性和定量研究结果表明,社区背景决定了并将继续影响当地人对多发性骨髓瘤爆发和森林管理的不同看法。对主要信息提供者的访谈提供了关于当地居民认知反应中基于背景的不同轨迹的丰富叙述,而调查数据则揭示了不断变化的社区差异的一般模式(例如,稳定或更清晰的社区集群、社区差异的减少)。我们探讨了方法论对社区指示的影响,以及理解社区对缓慢变化的环境的不同反应的未来方向。将不断变化的当地环境和变异知识纳入其中,还能帮助从业人员制定更动态、更有效的管理策略。
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Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators Environmental Science-Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
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