ABSTRACT
To what degree do people who live in forests have a conservation ethic? How can we quickly and reliably assess how close people feel to the forest? How closely integrated are the lives of forest people with their environment? These are some of the value-laden but important questions that recurred throughout our research on human well-being. Previous experience with cognitive mapping (the Galileo method described in the Introduction) suggested that the approach might be helpful for dealing with these questions.
