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Forest professionalism overrides gender: A case study of nature perception in Germany.
Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen
Autoren:
Storch S
Titel:
Forest professionalism overrides gender: A case study of nature perception in Germany.
Kurzzitat:
Storch S: Forest professionalism overrides gender: A case study of nature perception in Germany. Forest Policy Econ, 2011 (13): 171-175. : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.forpol.2010.11.003
Publikationstyp:
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Fachzeitschriften
Abstract:
Are women in the public forest services potential agents for change, as some authors have suggested? In this
article, I hypothesise that professionalism conditions nature perception and overrides gender effects among
foresters. Professionalism here includes expertise and exercise of control. Cultural Theory, especially the four
‘nature myths’ that have been adapted to it, ground the study theoretically, and data from two surveys ground
the study empirically (survey of the German population (Kuckartz et al. 2006) and my own survey of German
state foresters (2008)). The empirical findings support the hypothesis. Differences between foresters and the
general public are bigger than between female and male foresters. Foresters, whether male or female,
perceive nature as less ephemeral and less capricious than does the general public. Besides, they have a
distinct cultural bias towards nature as tolerant but vulnerable to surpassing ultimate limits. Female foresters
therefore do not change the profession's nature perception, at least not because of their gender. Questions that
remain are: why does the percentage of women in forestry nevertheless remain low and how could change
happen then?
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.forpol.2010.11.003
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