Private landowners’ approaches to planting and managing forests in the UK: What's the evidence?

Lawrence, Anna; Dandy, Norman

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.09.002

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“…They concluded that there is variability in the representation of management among forest owners and contrast between the official perception of undermanaged forests and owner beliefs that appropriate forest management was being undertaken. However, Lawrence and Dandy (2014) did not provide empirical evidence on forest owner representation of forest management.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Recently, Lawrence and Dandy (2014) reviewed predominantly "grey literature" in the United Kingdom in the field of values, beliefs, and attitudes of private forest owners. They concluded that there is variability in the representation of management among forest owners and contrast between the official perception of undermanaged forests and owner beliefs that appropriate forest management was being undertaken.…”

Section: Figmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our results show that underuse of wood resources in Slovenia is mostly because of biophysical constraints, and not to the general belief that "logging is worse than nonmanagement for the environment," which is said to be a consequence of a "deep-seated philosophical objection to harvesting" (Berlik et al 2002(Berlik et al :1564. Lawrence and Dandy (2014) concluded that the prevalent belief of private forest owners regarding the appropriate forest management in the United Kingdom is "nonintervention" and that this concept is to be blamed for underuse of forest resources. However, because Lawrence and Dandy (2014) built their review mostly on "grey literature" and did not provide statistical evidence for such a conclusion themselves, we cannot judge whether the difference between our results and theirs is because of the different social context of the studies and thus substantive; is because of different research methodologies, i.e., rapid evidence assessment versus structural equation modeling; or should be interpreted in light of the general discrepancy between the elicited mental constructions and actual behavior of an interviewee in a given situation (e.g., Lynam et al 2012).…”

Section: Forest Owner Representation Of Forest Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lawrence and Dandy (2014) noted a wide cultural gap between farming and forestry in the United Kingdom, which is clearly not the case in Slovenia (Medved et al 2010). Family farms were the dominant socioeconomic category of private forest ownership in Slovenia until 2005, when the share of family farms equaled the share of other forms of private ownership.…”

Section: Forest Owner Representation Of Forest Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By setting the correlation paths between the concepts, the substance is no longer a matter of labeling sufficiently for analytical interpretability, but it is also indicated through the correlations. Labels that have been used for forest owner conceptualization of forest management, such as nonintervention management, custodianship, guardianship (Lawrence and Dandy 2014), or "hands-off " management (Erickson et al 2002), largely lack the statistical evidence on how much they overlap with each other and what their relation is to scientific concepts of forest management.…”

Section: Forest Owner Representation Of Forest Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Forest owner representation of forest management and perception of resource efficiency: a structural equation modeling study

Ficko¹,

Bončina²

2015

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ABSTRACT. Underuse of nonindustrial private forests in developed countries has been interpreted mostly as a consequence of the prevailing noncommodity objectives of their owners. Recent empirical studies have indicated a correlation between the harvesting behavior of forest owners and the specific conceptualization of appropriate forest management described as "nonintervention" or "hands-off " management. We aimed to fill the huge gap in knowledge of social representations of forest management in Europe and are the first to be so rigorous in eliciting forest owner representations in Europe. We conducted 3099 telephone interviews with randomly selected forest owners in Slovenia, asking them whether they thought they managed their forest efficiently, what the possible reasons for underuse were, and what they understood by forest management. Building on social representations theory and applying a series of structural equation models, we tested the existence of three latent constructs of forest management and estimated whether and how much these constructs correlated to the perception of resource efficiency. Forest owners conceptualized forest management as a mixture of maintenance and ecosystem-centered and economics-centered management. None of the representations had a strong association with the perception of resource efficiency, nor could it be considered a factor preventing forest owners from cutting more. The underuse of wood resources was mostly because of biophysical constraints in the environment and not a deep-seated philosophical objection to harvesting. The difference between our findings and other empirical studies is primarily explained by historical differences in forestland ownership in different parts of Europe and the United States, the rising number of nonresidential owners, alternative lifestyle, and environmental protectionism, but also as a consequence of our high methodological rigor in testing the relationships between the constructs. We suggest developing natural resource management concepts that emphasize forests not just as ecosystems, but as socialecological systems.

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Section: Figmentioning

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Section: Forest Owner Representation Of Forest Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Forest Owner Representation Of Forest Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Forest Owner Representation Of Forest Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Forest owner representation of forest management and perception of resource efficiency: a structural equation modeling study

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Bončina²

2015

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The Knowledge and Value Basis of Private Forest Management in Sweden: Actual Knowledge, Confidence, and Value Priorities

Eriksson

Fries

2020

Environmental Management

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With growing demands on forests, there is a need to understand the drivers of managing the forest for diverse objectives, such as production, recreation, and climate adaptation. The aim of this study was to examine the knowledge and value basis of forest management behaviors, including different management strategies and management inactivity, among private forest owners in Sweden. Different dimensions of knowledge (declarative and procedural knowledge, assessed in terms of objective and subjective knowledge measures) and value priorities (basic values and forest values), as well as the role of forest owner identity, were examined. The study was conducted by means of a postal questionnaire to a random sample of private forest owners in Sweden (n = 3000, response rate 43%). The distinctions between actual knowledge (objective knowledge), confidence (subjective knowledge), and value priorities, in addition to the hierarchical structure of how these factors are linked to management behaviors, proved to be valuable. Results revealed that different knowledge dimensions and value priorities were jointly important for forest management behaviors. In addition, the role of forest owner identity for management behaviors was confirmed. Insights from the study may be used to develop policy and outreach to private forest owners and thereby facilitate different forest functions in private forestry.

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Distributional Issues in Natural Capital Accounting: An Application to Land Ownership and Ecosystem Services in Scotland

Atkinson

Ovando

2021

Environ Resource Econ

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Accounting for ecosystems is increasingly central to natural capital accounting. What is missing from this, however, is an answer to questions about how natural capital is distributed. That is, who consumes ecosystem services and who owns or manages the underlying asset(s) that give rise to ecosystem services. In this paper, we examine the significance of the ownership of land on which ecosystem assets (or ecosystem types) is located in the context of natural capital accounting. We illustrate this in an empirical application to two ecosystem services and a range of ecosystem types and land ownership in Scotland, a context in which land reform debates are longstanding. Our results indicate the relative importance of private land in ecosystem service supply, rather than land held by the public sector. We find relative concentration of ownership for land providing comparatively high amounts of carbon sequestration. For air pollution removal, however, the role of smaller to medium sized, mostly privately owned, land holdings closer to urban settlements becomes more prominent. The contributions in this paper, we argue, represent important first steps in anticipating distributional impacts of natural capital (and related) policy in natural capital accounts as well as connecting these frameworks to broader concerns about wealth disparities across and within countries.

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Private landowners’ approaches to planting and managing forests in the UK: What's the evidence?

Cited by 74 publications

References 56 publications

Forest owner representation of forest management and perception of resource efficiency: a structural equation modeling study

Forest owner representation of forest management and perception of resource efficiency: a structural equation modeling study

The Knowledge and Value Basis of Private Forest Management in Sweden: Actual Knowledge, Confidence, and Value Priorities

Distributional Issues in Natural Capital Accounting: An Application to Land Ownership and Ecosystem Services in Scotland

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