Research Group for Health Promotion in Settings, Department of Health, Social and Welfare Studies, University of South-Eastern Norway, P.O. Box 4, NO-3199 Borre, Norway.
Health Promot Int. 2024 Aug 1;39(4). doi: 10.1093/heapro/daae110.
The United Nations declares that the global degradation of ecosystems represents a danger to human health. Deterioration of forests is one of several threats against the natural systems. The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate people's experiences with clear-cutting and how it had affected their health and well-being. Qualitative data from six people who valued forest ecosystems were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed in accordance with Graneheim and Lundman's qualitative content analysis (Graneheim, U. H. and Lundman, B. (2004) Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness. Nurse Education Today, 24, 105-112). Clear-cutting was not regarded as an environment-friendly forestry method. The interviewees described emotional reactions such as grief and poor mental well-being when beloved forests were clear-felled. The grief was partly because of a personal loss of place and recreation area that was important for their physical and emotional well-being. Another part was grief on behalf of nature itself, that is, the loss of habitats of animals and plants and a worsening of the global climate. The interviewees held that emotions related to loss of nature were insufficiently communicated in public discourse. They felt powerless and unable to influence forestry because of what they experienced as an impenetrable industry. Clear-cutting of forests may result in poor well-being among people who value forest ecosystems. More focus on planetary health is needed, including healthy public policy promoting forest management that considers people's need for nature experiences and possible ecological grief when forests are totally and abruptly cleared.
联合国宣布，全球生态系统的退化对人类健康构成了威胁。森林恶化是对自然系统的几种威胁之一。这项探索性研究的目的是调查人们对皆伐的经验，以及它如何影响他们的健康和福祉。通过半结构化访谈收集了六名重视森林生态系统的人的定性数据，并根据 Graneheim 和 Lundman 的定性内容分析进行了分析(Graneheim, U. H. and Lundman, B. (2004) 护理研究中的定性内容分析：概念、程序和达到可信度的措施。护士教育今日, 24, 105-112)。皆伐不被认为是一种环保的林业方法。受访者描述了当心爱的森林被砍伐时，他们会产生悲伤和心理健康不佳等情绪反应。这种悲伤部分是因为个人失去了对身体和心理健康很重要的地方和娱乐区。另一部分是代表自然本身的悲伤，即动植物栖息地的丧失和全球气候的恶化。受访者认为，与自然丧失相关的情绪在公共话语中没有得到充分的表达。他们感到无能为力，无法影响林业，因为他们所经历的是一个难以渗透的行业。森林皆伐可能导致重视森林生态系统的人的福祉下降。需要更加关注行星健康，包括促进森林管理的健康公共政策，考虑到人们对自然体验的需求，以及当森林被完全和突然清除时可能产生的生态悲伤。
