Sex skogsägares upplevelser av stormen Gudrun
en expolrativ studie
In Sweden we are spared from large natural disasters. However, in January 2005 part of Sweden was struck by a hurricane. It did not only leave a decimated landscape in its wake. It also left its mark on many people who lived in the south of Sweden. In this paper the reader will be presented six qualitative interviews that build on forestowners' experiences during and in the aftermath of the Storm of January 2005. The idea behind this paper is to gain an understanding of the consequences, both the physical and emotional, that were caused by the storm. Data collection and analysis were done simultaneously according to grounded theory methodology. The result consists of a thematic analysis of the contents of the interviews. "The loss of the forest" was identified as the core theme and was related to four underlying themes,labelled "The relation to the forest", "The relation to others", "Time goes by" and "Self-care".