Forest transition in Northern Spain: Local responses on large-scale programmes of field-afforestation

Pérez, Milagros Fernández; Rodríguez-Vicente, Verónica

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.02.004

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“…The most commonly-used technique for differentiating between social groups is the survey (Barli et al 2006, Marey-Pérez & Rodríguez-Vicente 2008. However, the methodology used in this study has three major advantages over surveys: (1) the study can be carried out on a greater scale; (2) obtaining information is cheaper; and (3) the value of the results is different, as it is not based on the participants' opinion.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are historical reasons for this. Several authors reported as the main reason for this passivity the unstable legal process regarding the ownership of common lands throughout the 20 th century , Marey-Pérez et al 2006, 2010, Marey-Pérez & Rodríguez-Vicente 2008. MVMC have undergone changes in ownership, going from private to public, and then from public to collectively-owned private lands, which is their current legal status (DOG 1989).…”

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“…In these parishes, inland areas of the region of valleys and mountains, livestock farms are active but the population is declining and growing old. The most reasonable explanation for this is that the new uses for the land (mainly as a source of energy) spark financial interest, together with the traditional wish for the division of land into individual parcels (Marey-Pérez & Rodríguez-Vicente 2008). This in turn is the root cause of much conflict (Skutsch 2000), either within the community (Brehm 2007), with institutions (Ibarra & Hirakuri 2007) or with energy companies (De Jong et al 2006).…”

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Does higher owner participation increase conflicts over common land? An analysis of communal forests in Galicia (Spain)

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Calvo-González³

2015

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© iForest -Biogeosciences and Forestry IntroductionIn a modern sense, public participation in devising forest management is voluntary. Within public participation processes, people, individually or in organized groups, can exchange information, express opinions and articulate interests with the aim of influencing the final result in decision making (ILO 2000, Aasetre 2006, Atmis et al. 2007. It is both an opportunity and a need for today's society, as it is a useful tool to avoid conflicts, share information and encourage good relations with the planning team (Hellström 2001, Kangas & Store 2003, Santos et al. 2006, Janse & Konijnendijk 2007, Hiltunen et al. 2009, Cantiani 2012. Public participation contributes to democratization through the reinforcement of transparency in decision making: it increases plurality of aims, encourages mutual learning and increases the awareness of collective responsibility for natural resource management questions (Elsasser 2002, Kangas et al. 2010, Lennox et al. 2011).According to Ostrom & Nagendra (2006), sustainable governance of natural resources is a challenging task, in which "major debates occur over what types of policy interventions best protect forests, with choices of property and land tenure systems being central issues" and natural resource management can be approached from different views. There are regional differences in practical approaches to biodiversity conflict management because the social, political and economic characteristics of a culture influence the type of conflicts and the response to them (Hellström 2001). In this context, conflicts are confrontations between opposing values and objectives of the stakeholders in the sustainable management of natural resources (Bojórquez-Tapia et al. 2004), often caused by different perceptions of the initial situation of the resources discussed (Gritten et al. 2009). Following Skutsch (2000, conflicts over biodiversity should be regarded as inherent in social participation, reinforcing the ideas of Hellström (2001), which are seen as an important part of the decisionmaking process on how to use the natural resources.Conflicts usually have negative effects on forest management (Druckman 2005). However, the key to understanding and to the new social demands in forest areas (Hellström 2001) lies in the nature of conflicts. Many authors have analyzed conflicts in forest areas (Elands et al. 2004, Maskey et al. 2006, Djamhuri 2008, Schlueter 2008. White et al. (2009) developed a new and innovative framework aimed at improving the conceptual understanding of biodiversity conflicts. This method is based on the analysis of ecological, economic and social factors that affect the behavior of the biodiversity actors responsible for the conflict. This system is useful in developing strategic models to improve the understanding of general conflict dynamics.The aim of the study is to classify in groups the parishes with communal forest land of the Montes Vecinales en Mano Común (MVMC), to analyze the different management levels an...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Does higher owner participation increase conflicts over common land? An analysis of communal forests in Galicia (Spain)

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“…In other areas, the factors that affect the decision-making process can be modified by offering various incentives that increase the return from afforestation investments. In the 1950s, Western European countries developed various political tools, such as grants, premiums and subsidies, to increase the appeal of afforestation schemes [16]. In the US, forestry incentive programs come generally in two broad categories: financial assistance (from preferential tax treatment to cost sharing) and technical assistance (consultants) [17].…”

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“…Tax incentives play the most important role [19]. A study of the Spanish forest market covering 1993-2003 revealed that farmers who participated in afforestation schemes co-funded by subsidies earned 3% more than agricultural producers who chose not to convert their land to forests [16].…”

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Financial Dilemmas Associated with the Afforestation of Low-Productivity Farmland in Poland

Źróbek-Różańska

Nowak

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Abstract:In Poland, 82% of forests are State-owned, and only 17% of forests constitute private property. Each year, forests are converted to other land-use types, mainly for road construction. The afforestation rate on privately-owned low-productivity land is decreasing steadily. The owners and perpetual usufructuaries of this kind of land are eligible to government subsidies to cover establishment expenditures in whole or in part, provided that the afforestation scheme complies with the local zoning plan or an outline planning permission. The above creates a dilemma for farmers-is this a profitable option of managing low-productivity land? Owners of small farms particularly often face such dilemmas. Owners of small farms, which consist of low-yield agricultural land, can be regarded as investors operating on the real estate market, but those investors have features characteristic of agricultural producers. This study relied on the net present value (NPV) criterion, which is popularly used to assess the effectiveness of investments on the real estate market. A financial feasibility assessment performed with the use of such method in view of afforestation statistics and the 5% discount rate on the Polish forest market OPEN ACCESSForests 2014, 5 2847 revealed the highest increase in net cumulative cash flows in the first five years, followed by a gradual decrease in successive years. The first negative cash flow was reported in year 20. NPV would remain negative because farmers would be charged with periodic maintenance expenditures until the stand reaches harvestable age at approximately 40 years. The longer the investment period, the lower the profits, even if discount rate is excluded. Investments of the type are difficult to terminate because forests younger than 20 years are difficult to sell at a price that covers growing outflows. Afforestation projects are also influenced by other economic and non-economic factors. The paper validates the research hypothesis that afforestation is a long-term investment that delivers benefits for future generations.

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EU Sanitary Regulation on Livestock Disposal: Implications for the Diet of Wolves

Lagos

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2015

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Sanitary and environmental regulations may have indirect effects on the wildlife and ecosystem services beyond their regulatory scope. To illustrate such effects, this paper examines how EU sanitary measures, in conjunction with additional regulations and socio-economic changes, have caused wolf diet to shift in Galicia, northwestern Spain. Prior to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis in Europe in 2000, livestock carcasses used to be left on the field and were eaten by scavengers and carnivores. As a result of the BSE crisis, sanitary regulations regarding the disposal of livestock carcasses were introduced. These regulations affected the populations of avian scavengers. We hypothesize that wolf ecology has also been affected by the aforementioned regulations. We analysed wolf diet for the period 2003-2006 and compared the results with those of a previously published study (1974-1978). We found a shift in wolf feeding habits following the implementation of these EU regulations. A decrease in carrion consumption was registered, and wolves increased their feeding on the rising population of wild ungulates, especially on roe deer, and on wild pony. Future regulations should assess their potential indirect effects in the early stages of drafting to allow for the design of proper mitigation measures.

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Forest transition in Northern Spain: Local responses on large-scale programmes of field-afforestation

Cited by 63 publications

References 28 publications

Does higher owner participation increase conflicts over common land? An analysis of communal forests in Galicia (Spain)

Does higher owner participation increase conflicts over common land? An analysis of communal forests in Galicia (Spain)

Financial Dilemmas Associated with the Afforestation of Low-Productivity Farmland in Poland

EU Sanitary Regulation on Livestock Disposal: Implications for the Diet of Wolves

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