Structural and narrative reconstruction of rural residents' representations of 'nature', 'wildlife', and 'landscape'
Structural and narrative reconstruction of rural residents' representations of 'nature', 'wildlife', and 'landscape'
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DOI：
10.1007/s10531-004-5021-1
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发表时间：
2006-05-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Stamou, George P.
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作者：
Hovardas, Tasos;Stamou, George P.
本文的目的是结构和叙事重建表征的“自然”，“野生动物”和“牺牲”，举行的农村居民的达迪亚森林保护区。数据收集涉及深入访谈。采用社会表征的方法，我们恢复了代表性的元素，预计在农村信仰体系的情况下，如对狼和狐狸的负面倾向，以及城市的坚持，如自然的独立性的元素。代表性元素指的是乡村的视觉方面，这似乎与乡村田园诗的比喻核心兼容。关于“野生动物”，居民们把重点放在秃鹫上，秃鹫是保护区的主要旅游景点。科学知识增加了叙事图式的复杂性，这与“野生动物”的表征相对应。受访者认为乡村景观是自然和人为环境之间的界面。我们的研究表明，受访者没有提到环境保护或生活质量问题，因为它可以预期根据相对广泛的定义的术语“环保主义”。生态旅游业发展所加强的环境信息似乎主要是从其与当地人民所认为的经济利益的兼容性方面来回顾的。尽管生态旅游的发展，代表性的元素，从旅游版本的“自然”，“野生动物”和“景观”的分歧并不明显的农村信仰体系。在研究区域内需要进一步的干预措施，以解决各种主题下的环境保护的话语和提高农村居民的环境意识。
The objective of this paper is the structural and narrative reconstruction of representations of 'nature', 'wildlife' and 'landscape', held by rural residents of the Dadia Forest Reserve. Data collection involved in-depth interviews. Employing a social representations' approach, we recovered representational elements that are expected in the case of rural belief systems, such as negative dispositions towards wolves and foxes, as well as elements of an urban adherence, such as nature's independence. Representational elements refer to visual aspects of the countryside, which seem compatible with the figurative nucleus of the rural idyll. Concerning 'wildlife', residents focused on vultures, which comprise the main tourist attraction of the reserve. Scientific knowledge adds to the complexity of the narrative schema, which corresponds to the representation of 'wildlife'. Interviewees perceived the rural landscape as an interface between the natural and the human-conditioned environment. Our study shows that interviewees make no reference to environmental conservation or quality of life issues, as it could be expected according to relatively wide definitions of the term 'environmentalism'. Environmental messages reinforced by ecotourism development seem to be recalled primarily in terms of their compatibility with the perceived economic benefit of local people. Despite ecotourism development, representational elements that diverge from a tourist version of 'nature', 'wildlife' and 'landscape' were not pronounced within rural belief-systems. Further interventions within the study area are needed, in order to address a variety of topics under the environmental conservation discourse and raise the environmental awareness of rural residents.