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Attending to nature: Understanding care and caring relations in forest management in the UK

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JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
卷 86, 期 -, 页码 226-235

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.022

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Forest management; Care; Trees; Conservation; Tree health; Emotion

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  1. UK Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Initiative (Phase 3) - BBSRC
  2. Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
  3. ESRC
  4. Forestry Commission
  5. NERC
  6. Scottish Government [BB/N022831/1]

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This paper explores the importance of care and caring relationships in forest management decisions, using a case study of conservation forest management at a publicly owned site in the UK. Through in-depth qualitative research, it is shown that caring practices underpin the work of forest management, forests are created and sustained through care, and management decisions are influenced by caring relationships. The study highlights the complexities of real-life decision-making and offers implications for forestry policy and practice.
Increasing threats from pests and diseases fundamentally question what forest management is and must do in the 21st century. The sociological concept of 'care' offers new understandings of forest management as intimate and emotional relationships between people and trees. In this paper, we examine the empirical realities of conservation forest management at a UK publicly owned site to reveal the social, economic, and institutional contexts of care and caring relations and their role in management decisions. This in-depth qualitative case study uses walking interviews with staff from all levels of the organisation and participatory data testing to show how care underpins the work of forest management, that forests are made and sustained through caring practices, and that management decisions are influenced by caring relations. Through the care framework we highlight the complexities of real-life decision-making and offer implications for forestry policy and practice. Applying the well-established components of care in a new setting, wherein the caring relations involve nonhumans, we extend care theory and demonstrate the potential of the single case study for deeply contextual forest and conservation research.

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