Summary information
Study title
Amateur Naturalism and Activities of Nature and Wildlife Organizations: Interviews 2002-2011
Creator
Santaoja, Minna (University of Tampere. School of Management)
Study number / PID
FSD2956 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2956 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd2956 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
The qualitative dataset consists of 33 interview transcripts. The interviewees were authorities and amateur naturalists and other people whose hobbies included activities related to nature or wildlife. The latter were selected from among individuals with strong interest in plants, birds, insects or swamps. The interviewed authorities worked with environmental protection issues or environmental research at local, regional or national level. Data were mostly collected with face-to-face interviews but there were also one telephone and one e-mail interview. Questions asked varied between interviewees. Main themes included the interviewees' nature interest, its origins, history and role in their lives, motivation behind the interest, and future prospects of citizen participation in nature conversation issues. One topic pertained to collaboration between nature activists and authorities, potential conflicts of interests, and the role played by amateur naturalists societies in environmental governance. Background variables included whether it had been an individual or group interview, the participant's gender, estimated age, hobby/specialist field, location and time of the interview, and for interviewed authorities, also job title. The dataset is only available in Finnish.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
31/10/2002 - 22/03/2011
Country
Finland
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Universe
Amateur naturalists and authorities working with environmental and nature issues
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Purposive
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Interview
Telephone interview
E-mail interview
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2014
Terms of data access
The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.
Related publications
- Leino Helena, Peltomaa Juha, Santaoja Minna (2010). For the sake of the lake: multi-signification and improvisation in the practices of two lake restoration projects in Finland. Local Environment 15 (9/10), 775-784.
- Santaoja M. (2010). Potentials of volunteer involvement in conservation site management. Example from Ahtialanjärvi lake in Finland. Teoksessa Kluvánková-Oravská et al. (toim.) From Government to Governance? Multilevel Governance for Water and Biodiversity. The Perspective of Central and Eastern Europe. Prague, Czech Republic.: Alfa Nakladatelství (Alfa Printing) s.r.o., 142-160.
- Santaoja, Minna (2021). The intertwined past, present, and future of local natural history museum and amateur naturalism in Tampere, Finland. Curator: The museum journal 64:1, 57-77.
- Santaoja, Minna (2022). Insect affects: A study on the motivations of amateur entomologists and implications for citizen science. Science and Technology Studies 35:1, 58-80.
- Santaoja, Minna (2012). Naiset luontoharrastajina. Alue ja ympäristö 41 (1), 82-95.
- Santaoja, Minna (2013). Rakkaudesta luontoon : Luontoharrastajat luonnonsuojelun toimijoina. Tampere: Tampere University Press. (Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1853).
- Santaoja, Minna (2008). Luontoharrastuksen ristiriitainen poliittisuus. Kulutustutkimus.Nyt. 2 (1), 47-62.
- Santaoja Minna (2014). Luontoharrastuksen ja luonnontieteellisen museotoiminnan yhteiset vaiheet - tamperelainen tarkastelu. Ympäristöhistoria - Finnish Journal of Environmental History (YFJEH) 4 (1), 7-31.
- Santaoja Minna (2013). Tietoa luonnosta - rahasta vai rakkaudesta? Kulttuurintutkimus 30 (3), 15-28.
- Santaoja, Minna. (2015). Kiehtova toinen - hyönteisharrastuksen järki ja tunteet. Alue ja Ympäristö 44:2, 3-14.