Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.3390/d2091130 |
| Title (Primary) | Cultural diversity issues in biodiversity monitoring - cases of Lithuania, Poland and Denmark |
| Author | Vandzinskaite, D.; Kobierska, H.; Schmeller, D.S.; Grodzińska-Jurczak, M. |
| Source Titel | Diversity |
| Year | 2010 |
| Department | NSF |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Page From | 1130 |
| Page To | 1145 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | amateurs; biodiversity monitoring; communist legacy; human dimension; cultural diversity; public participatory; volunteers |
| Abstract | Public participation is a key element in nature conservation in Europe and a necessity for collecting broad scale data on biodiversity and its dynamics. However, vast societal differences exist between eastern and western European countries, resulting in problems for public participation in post-communist states as compared to western countries. Here, we compare diversity in monitoring practices and public participation in countries with different political histories. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic studies conducted in Lithuania and Poland, as well as a rapid assessment in Denmark, we have focused on the historical, cultural and social determinants of the volunteers' participation in biodiversity monitoring. Our results indicate the reasons why volunteer involvement-as an expression of a participatory approach-has a lower incidence in the post-communist countries, compared to voluntarism common in occidental democracies. We discuss our results in the context of the main social factors considered to be a legacy of the Soviet regime. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=10626 |
| Vandzinskaite, D., Kobierska, H., Schmeller, D.S., Grodzińska-Jurczak, M. (2010): Cultural diversity issues in biodiversity monitoring - cases of Lithuania, Poland and Denmark Diversity 2 (9), 1130 - 1145 10.3390/d2091130 |
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