Factors determining forest management by farmers in northwest Spain: Application of discriminant analysis

Pérez, Milagros Fernández; Rodríguez-Vicente, Verónica

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2011.03.008

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“…These caveats link our study with previous research warning that CFs seem to be anchored to a collective property system without paying attention to their role as sustainability transformation agents, e.g., References [26][27][28]. We argue that the SE framework favors the transition of CFs from a property system that eventually provides economic outcomes to one aimed at doing so.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…Galician CFs have been widely studied from different approaches such as agricultural uses, forest uses and forest fires, and management, e.g., References [14,18,[26][27][28][29][30]. However, in this case, there is a notable scarcity of economic analyses that can help us to evaluate the potential of CFs as a driver of sustainable growth as well as a way of improving the wellbeing of rural citizens.…”

Section: An Alternative View On Common Forests: the Galician Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A New Life for Forest Resources: The Commons as a Driver for Economic Sustainable Development—A Case Study from Galicia

Domínguez

García

Taín

2021

Land

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Communal forests are a unique land tenure system and comprise a singular legal category in Galicia. Their persistence over time demonstrates that this community-owned resource has overcome the “tragedy of the commons”, showing their capability to successfully develop self-governing institutions. However, communal forests have rarely been studied through the lens of economics. This minimizes the opportunity to explore to what extent communities of communal forests might be a driving force of general well-being, citizen empowerment, equity, employment, and local development. In this paper, we focus on this gap and address the opportunities. We detail this special ownership structure that allows residents of rural areas to exploit the forest as if they were a single owner. Moreover, we highlight the potential of communal forests to exploit local resources far beyond extractive processes, enabling the generation of greater added value to the economy while favoring a responsible treatment of resources. This enables productive activity integrated with the rest of the primary sector, while allowing for the maintenance of the population and supporting the local economy. Our results reveal a set of inefficiencies that can jeopardize common forest opportunities to become a sustainable economic activity, such as underqualified management, a low level of interest and commitment among community members, and excessive focus on logging. Thus, we propose several actions to improve collective engagement and active membership to better manage Galicia’s forests.

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confidence: 56%

Section: An Alternative View On Common Forests: the Galician Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Life for Forest Resources: The Commons as a Driver for Economic Sustainable Development—A Case Study from Galicia

Domínguez

García

Taín

2021

Land

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“…Galician forests have widely been studied regarding topics such as management (Gómez-Vázquez et al, 2009;Marey-Pérez and Rodríguez-Vicente, 2011), harvesting planning and afforestation (González-Gómez et al, 2011;Diaz-Balteiro et al, 2009;Marey-Pérez and Rodríguez-Vicente, 2009), forest biomass (Soliño et al, 2009(Soliño et al, , 2012, and communal forests (Iglesia et al, 2013;Bauer, 2005), with some mainly focused on forest fires (Barreal et al, 2014;González-Gómez et al, 2013;Bisquert et al, 2012;Prestemon et al, 2012;Soliño et al, 2010;Pasalodos-Tato and Pukkala, 2008;Seijo, 2005).…”

Section: Forests and Communal Forests In Galiciamentioning

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Community-based forest management institutions in the Galician communal forests: A new institutional approach

Caballero

2015

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…Samples should include a number of farms of each geographical area (Caballero, 2001;Usai et al, 2006;Castel et al, 2010;Marey-Pérez & Rodríguez-Vicente, 2011) and/or each economic activity structure, in the case where the farms are multifunctional (Gaspar et al, 2008), and each type of farm, in relation to aspects considered important in the classif ication (size, productive aptitude, gender of workers, etc.) should be proportionally represented (Ruiz et al, 2008).…”

Section: Size and Characteristic Of Farm Samplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some examples of data collection in livestock farming systems using a structured direct questionnaire for indepth interviews, including questions properly selected to obtain a general description of farm characteristics and overall management practices are the following: Daskalopoulou & Petrou (2002) and Gelasakis et al (2012) in Greece; Castel et al (2003) in Andalusia, Spain; Gaspar et al (2008) in Extremadura, Spain, Marey-Pérez et al (2011) in Galicia, Spain; Paz et al (2005) in Argentina; Usai et al (2006) in Italy; Milán et al (2006), Castel et al (2010) in Poland and Carmona et al (2010) in Chile.…”

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confidence: 99%

An overview of farming system typology methodologies and its use in the study of pasture-based farming system: a review

Mądry

Guerrero²,

Roszkowska-Mądra

et al. 2013

Span. j. agric. res.

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The main objective of the paper is to do a critic study of the use of typology methodologies within pasture-based farming systems (PBFS), especially those situated in less favoured areas, showing in each case the more relevant variables or indicators determining the farming system classification. Another objective is to do an overview of the most used farming system typology methodologies in general. First some considerations about the concept of farming system and approaches to its study have been done. Next, the farming system typology methodologies have been showed in general to different farming systems, but addressed preferably to PBFS. The different tools integrated in these methodologies have been considered: sampling methods, sources of data, variables or indicators obtained from available data and techniques of analysis (statistical or not). Methods for farming system classification have been presented (expert methods, analytical methods or a combination of both types). Among the statistical methods, the multivariate analysis has been overall treated, including the principal component analysis and the cluster analysis. Finally, the use of farming system typology methodologies on different pasture-based farming systems has been presented. The most important aspects considered are following: the main objective of the typology, the main animal species, the employed methods of classification and the main variables involved in this classification.

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Factors determining forest management by farmers in northwest Spain: Application of discriminant analysis

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

A New Life for Forest Resources: The Commons as a Driver for Economic Sustainable Development—A Case Study from Galicia

A New Life for Forest Resources: The Commons as a Driver for Economic Sustainable Development—A Case Study from Galicia

Community-based forest management institutions in the Galician communal forests: A new institutional approach

An overview of farming system typology methodologies and its use in the study of pasture-based farming system: a review

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