| Summary: | Avhandling (Ph.D.) – Universitetet i Nordland, 2013 Nature, culture and economy are considered to be sectors with different values. This thesis examines how an activity, the traditional Norwegian outdoor life – friluftsliv, which can be seen as a cultural activity performed in nature, is influenced by values from economical sector. The culture of friluftsliv has historically been built on the values of simplicity, respect for nature’s intrinsic value and avoidance of facilitation. These values are according to several authors threatened, and their critic is mainly aimed towards the influence of consumer culture and other factors linked to economical sector. The main idea behind the thesis is to examine if this actually happens, and how it affects friluftsliv. The problem statement for the thesis is therefore: Do economical values influence friluftsliv through a displacement of nature and cultures value sectors? If so, how does this change friluftsliv? How can economical sector be formed to harmonize with the other sectors? The problem statement is divided into 5 research questions. Question one is examining how nature, culture and economy is interpreted differently in neoclassical economics and ecological economics. Question two introduces the term value displacement, and describes the process where values in an activity are displaced by an outer pressure. This does not mean that an activity is expected to be static, but that change is supposed to happen within the activity as an improvement. Therefore, a value displacement can be divided into two. It can be a result of absent knowledge over which values an activity is built on, or a lack of connection between the values participants in an activity support and how they act in the activity. The first can be named value displacement in the consciousness, and the second value displacement in practice. Question three builds on the description of value displacement in question two and identifies the core values in friluftsliv both from a theoretical, historical ...
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