DOI: 10.16904/envidat.289
title: ATREE Q-methodology statement sorts on forest clearances offsetting in the forest

description: In Novdember 2019 about 19 experts on forest surface protection and forest clearances were invited to a workshop in order to discuss policy design and implementation problems regarding the offsetting of forest clearances. In Switzerland such offsetting can be provided under certain circumstances by implementing forest nature conservation measures in the forest instead of providing in-kind compensation, i.e. reafforestation on agricultural land. The workshop included the sorting of 34 statements – that were elaborated beforehand, partially also with help of the participants – according to the "Q-methodology" survey technique (participants arrange given statements about a certain subject into boxes that are normally distributed over a "agree - do not agree" answer scale). The participants included representatives from cantonal and national forest administrations, nature conservation NGOs, forest NGOs, spatial planning NGOs, private counseling enterprises as well as national, cantonal and regional forest owner organizations. The data allows a factor analytical differentiation of actors into groups with distinct positions towards forest clearance compensation as well as a positioning of these groups relative to each statement.
description: Resource Title: ATREE Q-Methodology Data on Forest Clearances Offsetting
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 URL: https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/82dd7832-501f-4283-a6ba-7d0de444d1f6/resource/bf8fbac4-13a2-44a1-9bd9-8ddc65aa2062/download/rodungsersatzworkshop_all_anonymized.csv
 Description: The data was collected in a workshop setting and they thus conducted their sorts individually, but not in an interview setting together with the interviewer, but alone but in interaction with other workshop participants. Hence, they had the possibility to discuss in groups or also with a wider number of participants. The independence of the answers is thus not fully guaranteed, however, observation during the workshop suggests that the participants were all sufficiently self-dependent, were able to do the sorts based on their experience and expertise and were not influenced heavily by other perspectives. The data is anonymized insofar, as there are no names of individual participants and not even names of organizations but only of types organizationa. The data should be ready to be analyzed with the "qmethod" package in R (as of Feburary 2021). Please note that this also requires data on the statements which are also included here in Englisch (short version) and German (original version).
description: Resource Title: ATREE Q-Methodology Statements on Forest Clearances Offsetting (original version in German)
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 URL: https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/82dd7832-501f-4283-a6ba-7d0de444d1f6/resource/d9edda1a-d887-47c7-83f7-92315317e203/download/neue_statements_umfrage.txt
 Description: These are 34 statements that were given the workshop participants (in German) to be sorted into a normal distribution grid according to the Q-Methodology procedure.
description: Resource Title: ATREE Q-Methodology Statements on Forest Clearances Offsetting (short version in English)
 Size: 5160 bytes
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 URL: https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/82dd7832-501f-4283-a6ba-7d0de444d1f6/resource/b4306273-eec0-4286-94e8-78d03941566e/download/neue_statements_umfrage_enshort.txt
 Description: This is a short version of the 34 statements in English, which might be more convenient for the analysis of the data.