Explaining the resurgent popularity of the wild: motivations for wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria

摘要: Wild plant gathering becomes again a popular and fashionable activity in Europe after practices have been increasingly abandoned over the last decades. Recent ethnobotanical research documented diversity of from people diverse socio-economic cultural backgrounds who gather urban rural areas. Few efforts were though made to study motivations for wild plants understand resurgent popularity gathering. This paper addresses following questions: (1) which activate gatherers? (2) motivation-types gatherers exist Grosses Walsertal? (3) how do relate socio-demographic background Field was conducted Walsertal, Austria years 2008 2009 two field periods. Thirty-six local farmers first interviewed with semi-structured interviews. The identified these interviews then included structured questionnaire, used interview 353 residents valley. Pupils schools participated data collection as interviewers. Principal Component Analysis categorize identify gatherers. Generalized Linear Models calculated relations between respondents listed 13 different four not These 17 grouped five gatherers, are decreasing importance: product quality, fun, tradition, not-gathering, income. Women, older homegardeners more often fun; maintaining traditions; non-homegardeners frequently mention comes along an internalization motivations: main changed external extrinsic motivation because necessity towards internalized highly esteemed quality intrinsic pleasure itself. supports persistence gathering, positive self-perception good engagement