Abstract
This interdisciplinary study examined how perceived legitimacy and empowerment as well as expectations concerning positive outcomes in forest conservation explained forest owners' willingness to cooperate with environmental officials in the context of voluntary nature conservation. The views of 965 forest owners in southern Finland, where national forest conservation policy has been recently discussed and renewed, were analysed by structural equation modelling of questionnaire responses. Based on the models, perceived legitimacy and empowerment predicted forest owners' willingness to cooperate with environmental officials in nature conservation via the expectation that nature conservation would lead to positive outcomes. In addition, a significant interaction between legitimacy and empowerment was found: forest owners' empowerment perceptions increased the willingness to cooperate only among those owners who perceived the legitimacy of nature conservation to be low. The findings have theoretical and practical implications for research on legitimacy and empowerment as well as the application of nature conservation policies.
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