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How do inhabitants of mountain areas perceive climate change and forest dieback? A comparison between France and Germany

verfasst von: Elodie Brahic, Mareike Garms, Philippe Deuffic, Sandrine Lyser, Marius Mayer

Erschienen in: Environmental Management | Ausgabe 6/2022

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Forest dieback due to climate change has severe consequences for the sensitive environments of mountain forests which provide important ecosystem services for local communities, lowlands inhabitants, and visitors. However, this phenomenon is sometimes hard to identify for the lay public as it can manifest as a slow-onset phenomenon with rather inconspicuous signals or as large-scale disturbances like in the case of bark beetle outbreaks. The aim of this contribution is to analyze whether lay people perceive climate change-induced forest dieback in the landscape or not and what kind of damage they identify. To address this issue, we carried out a cross-comparison case-study in two mountain areas in France and Germany. To analyze the data, we introduce an innovative variable clustering approach to identify different groups of respondents based on their perception of climate change and forest dieback. Five groups of respondents—illustrating different degrees of worry—were identified in each case study: the non-alarmist, the carefree, the least informed, the worried, and the alarmist. These results show that both phenomena are not perceived as distant but as happening here and now; and that their perceptions are influenced by local contexts and personal experiences. We finally show that public perception of forest dieback has influenced the agenda setting on the enactment of new forest policies.

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Survey questionnaire available upon request.

The questionnaire was sent to all available addresses, acquired through the French postal service, which represented 3912 questionnaires out of the 5320 census households (INSEE 2014). 1408 households were missing because of incorrect addresses or deceased people.

A renown market research institute contacted and sent the questionnaire to inhabitants online.

We used the version 1.1 of the ClustOfVar R package, available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network.

Chi-squared test: X-squared = 65.74; df = 2; p value = 5.31e-15.

Chi-squared test: X-squared = 39.4; df = 3; p value = 1.39e-08.

Chi-squared test: X-squared = 2.27; df = 1; p value = 0.132.

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Titel: How do inhabitants of mountain areas perceive climate change and forest dieback? A comparison between France and Germany
verfasst von: Elodie Brahic
Mareike Garms
Philippe Deuffic
Sandrine Lyser
Marius Mayer
Publikationsdatum: 26.08.2022
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Environmental Management / Ausgabe 6/2022
Print ISSN: 0364-152X
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01694-9

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