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- Title
Cultural Diversity Issues in Biodiversity Monitoring-Cases of Lithuania, Poland and Denmark.
- Authors
Vandzinskaite, Deivida; Kobierska, Hanna; Schmeller, Dirk S.; Grodzinska-Jurczak, Malgorzata
- 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.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; POLAND; DENMARK; CULTURAL pluralism; BIODIVERSITY; POLITICAL participation; NATURE conservation; COMMUNIST state; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Diversity (14242818), 2010, Vol 2, Issue 9, p1130
- ISSN
1424-2818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/d2091130