Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Mountain Forest Ecosystem Services: The Ukrainian Carpathians Case Study

  1. Zahvoyska, Lyudmyla 1
  2. Bas, Tetyana 1
  1. 1 National Forestry University of Ukraine
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    National Forestry University of Ukraine

    Leópolis, Ucrania

    ROR https://ror.org/00rwcdf75

Book:
The Carpathians: Integrating Nature and Society Towards Sustainability

ISSN: 1863-5520,  1863-5539

ISBN: 9783642127243,  9783642127250

Year of publication: 2013

Pages: 353-367

Type: Book chapter

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12725-0_25 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

Sustainable development goals

Abstract

The large part of the Ukrainian Carpathians is covered by forests. Mountain forests sustain human life through numerous goods and services. Some of them are complementary, others are mutually exclusive. There are a lot of stakeholders for the benefits of mountain forest ecosystem services (MFES) and their interests often contradict. The paper provides insight into implicit world of stakeholders’ perceptions and preferences concerning MFES through a forest values universe and a set of cognitive maps of preferences across stakeholders, developed for the Ukrainian Carpathians. The forest values universe is designed using a Conceptual Content Cognitive Mapping method. This universe consists of nine dominant themes and more then 37 sub-themes. The dominant themes are: environmental, recreational, economic, educational, health care, emotional and aesthetical. The set of cognitive maps of stakeholders’ preferences regarding forest values is developed applying non-parametric statistic methods. The results indicate a consensus in perceptions of personal values across stakeholders and some contradictions in preferences of different stakeholders groups.

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