How Are Wood and Non-Wood Forest Products Utilized in the Czech Republic? A Preliminary Assessment of a Nationwide Survey on the Bioeconomy
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Design of the Study
2.3. Data Analysis
- (1)
- Certainly not;
- (2)
- Rather not;
- (3)
- Neither;
- (4)
- Rather yes;
- (5)
- Certainly yes.
3. Results
3.1. Forest Visitor General Characteristics
3.2. Wood-Based Forest Products
3.3. Selected Non-Wood Forest Products Utilization
3.4. Sources of Information
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions and Recommendations
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | Percentage (n) or Mean ± sd (Min–Max) |
---|---|
Gender (female) | 49.2 (517) |
Age (years), | 42.4 ± 13.5 (18–65) |
Age group | |
- 18–24 years | 10.0 (105) |
- 25–54 years | 65.4 (687) |
- 55–65 years | 27.0 (283) |
Education level | |
- Elementary school | 10.4 (109) |
- Secondary school/vocational training | 37.7 (396) |
- High school graduates | 36.3 (381) |
- University | 15.6 (164) |
Place of residential (region) | |
- Prague (capital city) | 13.9 (146) |
- Bohemia | 53.5 (562) |
- Moravia | 32.6 (342) |
Size of the city | |
- up to 1000 inhabitants | 16.2 (170) |
- 1001–5000 inhabitants | 20.8 (218) |
- 5001–20,000 inhabitants | 18.2 (191) |
- 20,001–100,000 inhabitants | 21.5 (226) |
- > 100,000 inhabitants | 23.3 (245) |
Frequency of forest visits | |
- Several times/week | 17.0 (178) |
- Once a week | 27.0 (283) |
- Once a month | 33.2 (349) |
- One or two times/year | 21.8 (229) |
- Never | 1.0 (11) |
Non-Wood Forest Products | Utilization % (n) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(N = 1050) | 1 (Certainly Not) | 2 (Rather Not) | 3 (Neither) | 4 (Rather Yes) | 5 (Certainly Yes) |
Mushrooms | 2.5 (26) | 3.5 (37) | 8.1 (85) | 27.4 (288) | 58.5 (614) |
Berries | 2.8 (29) | 6.6 (69) | 12.1 (127) | 30.7 (322) | 47.9 (503) |
Forest honey | 15.6 (164) | 15.6 (164) | 19.1 (201) | 27.0 (284) | 22.6 (237) |
Forest herbs | 9.1 (96) | 23.7 (249) | 24.6 (258) | 23.5 (247) | 19.0 (200) |
Forest flowers | 26.6 (279) | 27.1 (285) | 18.8 (197) | 16.5 (173) | 11.0 (116) |
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Purwestri, R.C.; Hájek, M.; Šodková, M.; Jarský, V. How Are Wood and Non-Wood Forest Products Utilized in the Czech Republic? A Preliminary Assessment of a Nationwide Survey on the Bioeconomy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 566. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020566
Purwestri RC, Hájek M, Šodková M, Jarský V. How Are Wood and Non-Wood Forest Products Utilized in the Czech Republic? A Preliminary Assessment of a Nationwide Survey on the Bioeconomy. Sustainability. 2020; 12(2):566. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020566
Chicago/Turabian StylePurwestri, Ratna C., Miroslav Hájek, Miroslava Šodková, and Vilém Jarský. 2020. "How Are Wood and Non-Wood Forest Products Utilized in the Czech Republic? A Preliminary Assessment of a Nationwide Survey on the Bioeconomy" Sustainability 12, no. 2: 566. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020566