Elena Górriz?Mifsud|Laura Secco|Riccardo Da Re|Elena Pisani|J. A. Bonet
Cognitive social capital and local forest governance: community ethnomycology grounding a mushroom picking permit design
Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya|University of Padua|University of Padua|University of Padua|Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya
aim study local ecological knowledge shared rural communities shapes norms using nearby openaccess natural resources suggest method analyse form cognitive social capital application mushroom picking permitx0d area study poblet forest catalonia ne spainx0d material methods applied semistructured questionnaires pickers four municipalities governing body protected area methodology assesses cognitive social capital combining three instruments interquartile ratio indexes community cohesion ii pairwise comparisons across social groups pickers decisionmakers dm iii correlations mental models linking perceived ecological social economic challenges foreseen solutionsx0d main results analogous perceptions dm local pickers found mushroomrelated problems align picking permit design features perceived dissimilar behaviour local foreign pickers need forest tending addressing wildfire risk trash left forest shared among pickers dm moreover mental models dm showed statistically consistence individual picker level mushroom ecoliteracy relates family learning proximity dm links pickers dm correlate increased forest profitability expectationsx0d research highlights strong convergence cognitive indicators aggregated town level indicate single hermeneutic community among local pickers seems underlie large permit acceptance explain differential permit uptake thus structural social capital emerges complementary predictor