Perspectives of Private Forest Owners toward Investment in Forest Carbon Offset Projects: A Case of Geumsan-Gun, South Korea

Shin, Seunguk; Yeo‐Chang, Youn

doi:10.3390/f10010021

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“…Compared to the relatable studies by Cai et al [73], Joshi and Arano [75] and Shin and Yeo-Chang [109], the eight regression models provide acceptable goodness of fit compared to the McFadden R 2 in those studies. The weakest model statistics in the comparison are shown for the HABITATTREENOTUSE and KEEPOFF models.…”

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confidence: 71%

Factors Explaining the Willingness of Small-Scale Private Forest Owners to Engage in Forestry—A German Case Study

Stockmann,

Franz,

Seintsch

et al. 2024

Forests

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In Germany, 24% of the forest area is owned by small-scale private forest owners, whose property is affected by a societal demand for forest-related ecosystem services. In the inhomogeneous group of small-scale private forest owners, different living conditions and lifestyles exist, which are affecting the management of the forest ownership. To support the management activities of small-scale private forest owners, institutional instruments exist, but these are only used by a small proportion of forest owners. In order to gain insights into the accessibility and activation of small-scale private forest owners for management, and to draw conclusions for appropriate support instruments, a large number of studies have analyzed the factors influencing the management activities of forest owners. Some studies identify socio-demographic and socio-economic variables as important influencing factors, but do not take into account their complex interdependencies, which have developed as a result of the pluralization of lifestyles and individualization of forest owners. For this reason, in addition to the influencing factors identified in the literature as relevant for forest management activities of small-scale private forest owners, the lifestyle segmentation approach of Sinus milieus established in German market research was applied in this study. This approach allocates forest owners based on their complex lifestyles into ten different milieu groups. A logistic regression analysis was used to determine the parameters influencing the willingness to engage in eight different forest management activities. The results show that the willingness to engage in forest management activities in the future is higher compared to actions in the past. In addition to timber harvesting-related activities, the small-scale private forest owners show a high action potential for non-commodity-related activities. Non-commodity-related activities can primarily be explained by the Sinus milieu affiliation of the small-scale private forest owners. This result underlines the usefulness of a lifestyle segmentation approach such as the Sinus milieus to address small-scale private forest owners in a target group specific way in line with their willingness to engage in specific forest management activities. Institutional instruments such as the membership in a forest owners association or subsidies do not play a significant role for non-commodity-related activities and seem to be inappropriate for targeting small-scale private forest owners for these activities. Timber harvesting-related activities are primarily influenced by the presence of professional foresters, socio-demographic factors or institutional instruments. Based on these empirical findings, implications can be drawn for the target group-specific addressing of forest owners based on different management activities. In this way, forest owners can be motivated to engage in forest management and the provision of forest-related ecosystem services.

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Section: Model Validationmentioning

confidence: 71%

Factors Explaining the Willingness of Small-Scale Private Forest Owners to Engage in Forestry—A German Case Study

Stockmann,

Franz,

Seintsch

et al. 2024

Forests

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“…The strategy of enhancing carbon storage by effectuating small changes to forest operations on a maximum of different forest plots only works if multifarious forest owners and managers can be targeted. This strategy requires both a good knowledge of the structure of forest ownership [38] and communication skills to avoid presenting offset contracts as a panacea to fund forest operations. Indeed, foresters have shown their interest in the financial initiatives for environment services, especially in a context of rising climatic hazards.…”

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“…The two organizations also planned in-itinere verifications of the permanence of the subsidized projects. Their approach, used in many other countries [23,38,39], aims to include the transaction costs of impermanence verifications in their estimated budgets. The organization either funds an external certifying body such as the Verified Carbon Standard [40] or pays for the costs of verifying the contracts itself.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Public forest managers are overrepresented, which reveals another obstacle to the activities of NF and Sylv'ACCTES: the long-standing problem of the ownership structures of private forests. The fragmentation of private forests, the ageing of their plentiful owners, and the share of absentee forest owners are internationally known to impede private investment in carbon offset contracts [38,39], and this equally applies to the French forest sector [46]. The efficiency of NF and Sylv'ACCTES to connect with forest ES providers is therefore not yet fully exploited, as both organizations mainly attract public forest managers.…”

Section: On the Efficiency Of Carbon Storage Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Efficient, Sustainable, and Multifunctional Carbon Offsetting to Boost Forest Management: A Comparative Case Study

Fouqueray

Génin

Trommetter

et al. 2021

Forests

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Research highlights: Funding forest management with subsidies from carbon offsetters is a well-documented mechanism in tropical regions. This article provides complementary insights into the use of voluntary offset contracts in temperate forests. Background and objectives: The mitigation of greenhouse emissions has become a major global issue, leading to changes in forest management to increase the capacity of forests to store carbon. This can lead to conflicts of use with other forest ecosystem services such as timber production or biodiversity conservation. Our main goal is to describe collective actions to fund carbon-oriented forestry with subsidies from carbon offsetters and to analyze how their governance and functioning prevent conflicts pertaining to multi-functionality. Materials and methods: We assembled an interdisciplinary research team comprising two ecologists, a social scientist, and an economist. Drawing on a conceptual framework of ecosystem services, social interdependencies, and collective action, we based our qualitative analysis on semi-structured interviews from two French case studies. Results: Carbon-oriented intermediary forest organizations offer offset contracts to private firms and public bodies. Communication is geared toward the mitigation outcomes of the contracts as well as their beneficial side effects in providing the ecosystem services of interest to the offsetters. Subsidies then act as a financial lever to fund carbon-oriented forestry operations. Scientific committees and reporting methodologies serve as environmental, social, and economic safeguards. Conclusions: These new intermediary forest organizations use efficient forest operations and evaluation methodologies to improve forest carbon storage. Their main innovation lies in their collective governance rooted in regional forest social-ecological systems. Their consideration of multi-functionality and socioeconomic issues can be seen as an obstacle to rapid development, but they ensure sustainability and avoid conflicts between producers and beneficiaries of forest ecosystem services. Attention must be paid to interactions with broader spatial and temporal carbon policies.

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“…Conservation organizations need to identify the locations of areas that should not be damaged or that need to be restored to promote species conservation. On the other hand, individual forest owners, local governments, national forest managers, and corporate forestland owners, who wish to obtain certification of carbon absorption through forest management activities, need information on the location and species of trees to plant that can maximize carbon storage (Shin and Yeo-Chang, 2019).…”

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Can a national afforestation plan achieve simultaneous goals of biodiversity and carbon enhancement? Exploring optimal decision making using multi-spatial modeling

Choi

Lim

Krasovskiy

et al. 2022

Biological Conservation

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Perspectives of Private Forest Owners toward Investment in Forest Carbon Offset Projects: A Case of Geumsan-Gun, South Korea

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Factors Explaining the Willingness of Small-Scale Private Forest Owners to Engage in Forestry—A German Case Study

Factors Explaining the Willingness of Small-Scale Private Forest Owners to Engage in Forestry—A German Case Study

Efficient, Sustainable, and Multifunctional Carbon Offsetting to Boost Forest Management: A Comparative Case Study

Can a national afforestation plan achieve simultaneous goals of biodiversity and carbon enhancement? Exploring optimal decision making using multi-spatial modeling

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