Learning from Landowners: Examining the Role of Peer Exchange in Private Landowner Outreach through Landowner Networks

Kueper, Amanda M.; Sagor, Eli; Becker, Dennis R.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2012.722748

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“…7,8 All of our interviewees said they consult their neighbors, relying on wisdom from long-time successful ranchers in their areas. However, they also emphasized a desire to operate differently from their neighbors.…”

Section: Seeking Ideas For Coping With Future Droughtsmentioning

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A Systems Thinking Approach to Ranching: Finding Leverage to Mitigate Drought

Rhoades¹,

McCuistion²,

Mathis³

2014

Rangelands

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Section: Seeking Ideas For Coping With Future Droughtsmentioning

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A Systems Thinking Approach to Ranching: Finding Leverage to Mitigate Drought

Rhoades¹,

McCuistion²,

Mathis³

2014

Rangelands

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“…Enhanced communication with other owners could provide new ideas, motivate learning and even stimulate actions (Chi et al 2001;Schubert and Mayer 2012). Studies about landowners' peer learning (Johnson et al 2006;Kueper et al 2013) show that this kind of extension could also be utilised more in Europe. Peer learning, i.e.…”

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“…To better reach and engage different forest owners and to inspire them to promote the production of ecosystem services, the traditional "transfer-of-knowledge" extension model could be complemented with other actions (Johnson et al 2006;Ma et al 2012;Kueper et al 2013). In particular, instead of a hierarchical structure of information delivery, the current extension model could benefit from more symmetric and equal participation, i.e.…”

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“…This kind of service is in recent programmes and studies in the USA referred to as 'forest extension' (Ma et al 2012) or 'expert led outreach extension' (Kueper et al 2013) and in Europe 'forestry advisory service' (Vedel et al 2006;Hokajärvi et al 2011). In this paper, we acknowledge the varying interpretations of the above concepts and clarify that with extension we refer to knowledge exchange that enhances learning; it is a situational cooperative process of forestry professional(s) and forest owner(s) to promote forestry in one's private forest.…”

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Enhancing informal interaction and knowledge co-construction among forest owners

Hamunen¹,

Virkkula²,

Hujala³

et al. 2015

Silva Fenn.

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• Forest owners' own communities could complement the present expert-driven forestry extension.• Enhancing informal interaction between forest owners calls for sufficiently homogeneous reference groups and also new communication contexts.• New purposes of forest ownership and innovative forest management practices are suggested topics for novel owner communities.• Forest professionals may initiate these communities, but the continuity depends on the owners themselves. AbstractIt is a common concern that non-resident private forest owners are less able to make informed decisions regarding their forests. Moreover, the present guidance given by forest professionals is not reaching all owners. In this study, we suggest enhancing knowledge exchange among forest owners by increasing their mutual and informal interaction that could inspire them to co-construct new knowledge. The first objective is to identify present emerging activities that constitute knowledge exchange contexts (communities) for Finnish forest owners. The second objective is to discuss the challenges of current Finnish forest extension and their implications when introducing Communities of Practice as a complementary response to existing, yet insufficient, professional-led extension. Data consist of Finnish forest owners' and forest professionals' (n = 43) focus group interviews. The qualitative analysis was theoretically oriented followed by data-driven coding and grouping. According to the results, the role of expert-led encounters is strong in Finland and owners' opportunities for good mutual communication are rare. Informal communities exist mainly in the countryside among neighbouring owners and within families. To enhance knowledge sharing among owners, one needs to identify innovative topics and activities that would inspire owners to commit to their forest property and perform active silviculture. These communities would operate as creative learning environments allowing participation of different levels. When cultivating forest owners' communities it is important to consider actors' roles. Forest owners themselves are responsible for the functions and continuity of these communities, although forest professionals could also initiate new and sufficiently homogenous reference groups for the owners.

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“…One of the principal ecological objectives is the establishment of corridors and connections between existing reserves (Crespin and García-Villalta, 2014), and one of the key economic issues is the opportunity cost of forgoing agricultural development (Phalan et al, 2011). One of the key social mechanisms is through peer exchange and outreach (Kueper et al, 2013), and NGO's may play a critical role in these processes (Pasquini et al, 2011;Stroman and Kreuter, 2014).…”

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Four hurdles for conservation on private land: the case of the golden lion tamarin in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

Buckley

Pegas

2015

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Many threatened species worldwide rely on patches of remnant vegetation in private landholdings. To establish private reserves that contribute effectively to conservation involves a wide range of complex and interacting ecological, legal, social, and financial factors. These can be seen as a series of successive hurdles, each with multiple bars, which must all be surmounted. The golden lion tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia, is restricted to the Atlantic Forest biome in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This forest is largely cleared. There are many small remnant patches on private lands, able to support tamarins. Local NGO's have successfully used limited funds to contribute to tamarin conservation in a highly cost effective way. We examined the mechanisms by analysing documents and interviewing landholders and other stakeholders. We found that the local NGOs successfully identified landholdings where ecological, legal, social, and some financial hurdles had already been crossed, and helped landholders over the final financial hurdle by funding critical cost components. This cost <5% of the price of outright land purchase. This approach is scalable for golden lion tamarin elsewhere within the Atlantic Forest biome, and applicable for other species and ecosystems worldwide.

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Learning from Landowners: Examining the Role of Peer Exchange in Private Landowner Outreach through Landowner Networks

Cited by 76 publications

References 21 publications

A Systems Thinking Approach to Ranching: Finding Leverage to Mitigate Drought

A Systems Thinking Approach to Ranching: Finding Leverage to Mitigate Drought

Enhancing informal interaction and knowledge co-construction among forest owners

Four hurdles for conservation on private land: the case of the golden lion tamarin in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

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