Social Structure, Identities, and Values: A Network Approach to Understanding People's Relationships to Forests

A social network approach is employed to examine the role that social capital plays in the relationships people have with forested landscapes and to identify the implications of these relationships to forest land-use planning. We argue that network-based processes lead to the development of social i...

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Published in:Journal of leisure research 2005-01, Vol.37 (4), p.426-449
Main Authors: Harshaw, H. W., Tindall, D. B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizen participation
Committees
Company business management
Decision making
forest land-use planning
Forest management
forest value formation
forest values
Forestry
Forests
Forests and forestry
Land Use
Land use planning
Legal Responsibility
Leisure activities
Management
Natural Resources
Opportunities
outdoor recreation
Perceptions
Political Influences
Public participation
Recreation
Regional Planning
Social aspects
Social capital
Social identity
Social networks
Social structure
Stakeholders
Timber
Values
Wilderness areas
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Summary:A social network approach is employed to examine the role that social capital plays in the relationships people have with forested landscapes and to identify the implications of these relationships to forest land-use planning. We argue that network-based processes lead to the development of social identity and to the formation of forest values. By linking the individual level of analysis to expressive outcomes, the relationship between network range, identity diversity, and diversity of forest values is explored. Results suggest that network range is directly related to identity diversity, which mediates the relationship between network range and forest value diversity, and that strong ties are relatively more important than weak ties in explaining the formation of identity and forest value diversity.
ISSN:0022-2216
2159-6417
DOI:10.1080/00222216.2005.11950061