Values, Ethics, and Attitudes Toward National Forest Management: An Empirical Study

Robert Manning; William Valliere; Ben Minteer

doi:10.1080/089419299279515

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Values, Ethics, and Attitudes Toward National Forest Management: An Empirical Study

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Authors:

Robert Manning, William Valliere, Ben Minteer

Year:

1999

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Northern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1080/089419299279515

Source:

Society and Natural Resources 12(5): 421-436

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Abstract

This study measures environmental values and ethics and explores their relationships to attitudes toward national forest management. The principal research methods were literature review and a survey of Vermont residents concerning management of the Green Mountain National Forest. Descriptive findings suggest respondents (1) favor nonmaterial values of national forests, (2) subscribe to a diversity of environmental ethics, including anthropocentric and bio-/ecocentric, and (3) support emerging concepts of ecosystem management. Environmental values and ethics explain approximately 60% of the variation in attitudes toward national forest management.

Keywords

environmental ethics, environmental values, national forests

Citation

Manning, Robert; Valliere, William; Minteer, Ben. 1999. Values, Ethics, and Attitudes Toward National Forest Management: An Empirical Study. Society and Natural Resources 12(5): 421-436