The lay of the land: What we know about non-operating agricultural and absentee forest landowners in the U.S. and Europe

Fairchild, Ennea; Ulrich‐Schad, Jessica D.; Petrzelka, Peggy; Ma, Zhao

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114991

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“…Despite certain documented socio-demographic trends, ALs are not a homogeneous group. While there is no nationwide data source for ALs, the characteristics of nonoperating landlords (NOLs)-many of whom are absentees-can help shed some light on ALs' profiles [12,18]. Of the 2 million landlords in the USA, NOLs make up 87% and are predominantly males, 65 years of age and older, and reside within 50 miles from their leased land [18,19].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The understanding of ALs' land management behaviors remains limited [12,22]. Some researchers argue that ALs are inactive and disengaged managers due to being physically away from their land [15,27,28].…”

Section: Environmental Stewardshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Compared to full-time landowners, ALs are less likely to participate in conservation due to the limited time spent on the land, disengagement from the land, insufficient land management experience, a lack of conservation knowledge, and limited contact with local natural resource professionals [9][10][11]. Although full-time residency and distance from the land help to distinguish ALs, scholars struggle to sufficiently explain ALs' heterogeneity and land management behaviors [12]. Limited research and the lack of a consistent definition further inhibit the understanding of this group [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Redefining Absentee: Towards Understanding Place Attachment and Stewardship in Non-Residential Landowners in Texas, USA

Lopez,

Spears,

Hartwick

et al. 2024

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Approximately 30% of the private land in Texas, USA is under absentee ownership. Understanding who absentee landowners are and their land management behaviors is vital for the protection of privately owned landscapes and the ecosystem services that they support, including surface water quality. By focusing on absentee landowners with properties in five watersheds in Texas, we utilized the theory of place attachment to gain insights into absentee landowners’ land management decisions and their involvement in water quality conservation programs, such as watershed protection plans (WPPs). By conducting a mail-out survey, we obtained 100 responses, which were analyzed using an exploratory factor analysis and a series of nonparametric assessments. The results revealed that, contrary to the term “absentee”, the landowners in our study demonstrated strong feelings of place attachment and heightened land stewardship. Based on these findings, we suggest that instead of considering absentee landowners as obstacles to collaborative conservation initiatives, such as WPPs, natural resource practitioners should recognize and capitalize on the emotional attachment that these landowners have to their properties, thereby fostering their involvement. By demonstrating the owner–land relationship and its behavioral outcomes among absentee landowners, this study provides a novel contribution to the existing literature on place attachment in the context of private land management and conservation.

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Redefining Absentee: Towards Understanding Place Attachment and Stewardship in Non-Residential Landowners in Texas, USA

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Hartwick

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“…A continuous educational process will be needed to persuade forest owners of the inherent value of old broadleaf trees (Salomaa et al, 2016) owners who are mostly passive in their management and would bene t from practice-oriented consultation to implement active measures (Tiebel et al, 2023). SPF owners, especially of the last type, might be an elusive group (Fairchild et al, 2022) and di cult to reach for private conservation initiatives due to lack of or scattering of organization, but their stands offer many possibilities for the conservation and development of valuable habitat structures, also given SPF owners' high identi cation with their property (Tiebel et al, 2022).…”

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Owner attitudes and landscape parameters drive stand structure and valuable habitats in small-scale private forests of Lower Saxony (Germany)

Hansen

Tiebel

Plieninger

et al. 2023

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Small-scale private forests cover large areas in Europe and often contain structures and habitats of high nature conservation value that are increasingly put under pressure due to a rising interest in fuelwood and wood products. We investigate the distribution of variables like living wood and deadwood volumes, management intensity, diversity and density of tree-related microhabitats recorded in 81 small-scale private forest parcels in the Lower Saxon Hills (northwest Germany). We provide an assessment of the influence of predictors like the individual forest owners’ goals and activities, as stated by them in a quantitative survey, as well as topographical parameters like parcel size, slope, landscape fragmentation and forest continuity. Our results indicate that there are two types of valuable structures in small-scale private forests: (a) slowly evolving structures like large-diameter living wood and tree-related microhabitats which mostly depend on topographical parameters that act on longer time scales, and (b) fast evolving structures like deadwood that are influenced by both owner attitudes and topographical parameters. The resulting implications for integrative forest and conservation management are discussed.

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Exploring the Role of ‘Intermediaries’ between Non-Operating Landowners and Tenant Farmers in Promoting Conservation on Rented Farmland

Ranjan,

Johnson,

Bernard

et al. 2024

Environmental Management

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The lay of the land: What we know about non-operating agricultural and absentee forest landowners in the U.S. and Europe

Cited by 7 publications

References 62 publications

Redefining Absentee: Towards Understanding Place Attachment and Stewardship in Non-Residential Landowners in Texas, USA

Redefining Absentee: Towards Understanding Place Attachment and Stewardship in Non-Residential Landowners in Texas, USA

Owner attitudes and landscape parameters drive stand structure and valuable habitats in small-scale private forests of Lower Saxony (Germany)

Exploring the Role of ‘Intermediaries’ between Non-Operating Landowners and Tenant Farmers in Promoting Conservation on Rented Farmland

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