The intention to continue with tract logging within Swedish forestry

Sammanfattning: The forest contributes to many ecosystem services and Sweden places great hope in the forest for the green transition, which has created a debate in society concerning how the forest should be used. Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control were investigated amongst the Swedish foresters to evaluate their intention to continue with tract logging in favour of introducing alternative methods. Through a web-based survey, data was collected and analysed and the main results from the present study show that attitudes have the strongest influence on the intention. This finding can be explained by the fact that attitudes have been formed and developed over a long time, strengthened by the Forest Protection Act promoting high production, the culture, the market incentives towards bioeconomy and forestry education in Sweden.