Understanding the management logic of private forest owners: A new approach

Novais, Ana; Canadas, Maria João

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2009.09.010

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“…Open-ended conversations enabled an in-depth reflection on the reasons and context for owning forest and taking certain management decisions. Explicit linking of owner's goals and management activities constitutes a special contribution to PFO literature, where such linking is largely missing (Dhubhain et al 2007;Novais & Canadas 2010).…”

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Forest owner is more than her goal: a qualitative typology of Lithuanian owners

Stanislovaitis

Brukas

Kavaliauskas

et al. 2015

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 2 AcknowledgementsThis study was performed within the frames of the research program INTEGRAL -futureoriented integrated forest management of European forests, funded by the European Commission's 7 th framework programme, grant agreement n° FP7-282887. AbstractIn contrast to quantitative surveys up to date, this study employs in-depth interviews and qualitative analyses aiming to provide detailed contextualized portrayals of private forest owners (PFO) in Lithuania, where forest ownership underwent crucial changes in the last two decades. We scrutinized narrations of 18 owners, focusing on the background and goals of forest possession, actually applied management practices and informants' future plans. Content analysis of the narrations revealed three classes of goals: ideational rationale, i.e. immaterial justification for owning and managing forest; financial goals referring to monetary benefits from selling forest products; and own material use for household needs. Reported practices differ widely among PFO, ranging from largely absent management to intensive silvicultural regimes. Syntheses of each informant's goals and practices enabled discerning four PFO types. Forest Businessmen typically own largest estates (>100 ha) and regard forest as an investment to get long-term financial benefits; they resort to forest management for timber and often intend to enlarge their possessions. Household Foresters primarily use timber for own needs, regularly applying selective tree cutting; such forestry results in frequent but small-scale management interventions. Passive Forest Lovers aspire to recreational or environmental values, being largely uninterested in timber harvesting. Ad Hoc Owners usually are small-scale, have vague goals and rarely engage in forest management. The study concludes with discussing policy implications of the identified diversity of PFO.

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Forest owner is more than her goal: a qualitative typology of Lithuanian owners

Stanislovaitis

Brukas

Kavaliauskas

et al. 2015

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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“…Yet, recent studies on the behavior of forest owners in Portugal (e.g. Batista and Santos, 2005;Novais and Canadas, 2010) provided the adequate rationale for their individual decision processes. The project team representations were validated afterwards with the forest association and the local communities.…”

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A participatory approach to design a toolbox to support forest management planning at regional level

Marques

Borges²,

García-Gonzalo³

et al. 2013

For. syst.

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Aim of the study: Forest management planning in a region typically involves multiple stakeholders. Decisions processes are idiosyncratic, driven by individual goals and supported by segmented forest-based information. Nevertheless, stakeholders’ decisions do impact one another leading to complex interaction networks where communication, cooperation and negotiation play a key role. This research addresses the need to develop decision tools to support these roles. Emphasis is on the integration of participatory planning tools and techniques in the architecture of a regional decision support toolbox.Area of the study: The proposed approach was applied in the Chamusca County in Central Portugal although it is easily extended to other regions.Material and methods: This research proposes an Enterprise Architecture methodological approach to design a toolbox that may address distinct stakeholders’ interests and decision processes, while enabling communication, cooperation, negotiation and information sharing among all those involved in the regional interactions network.Main results: the proposed approach was tested in a regional network involving decision processes and information shared by 22 entities clustered into 13 stakeholders groups, including industrial owners, and non-industrial private forestland owners (NIPF) - acting individually or grouped into associations and federations -, national and regional offices of the forest authority, forest services providers, non-governmental organizations and research centers. Results suggest that the proposed approach may provide a toolbox that may effectively address stakeholders’ decision processes and goals and support the regional interaction network.Key-words: forest management; multiple stakeholders; decision support systems; enterprise architecture; participatory process.

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“…Others addressed just how important timber production was to NIPF owners [172] or whether NIPF owner stated intentions for forest management matched actual practice on the ground [173]. How American forest management on small forest holdings compared to that in European countries, especially Sweden, also became a research topic [174][175][176][177][178][179][180][181][182]. Some studies considered economic aspects of small forests [183][184][185][186][187][188][189][190][191][192][193][194], suggesting education and demonstration programs [195][196][197][198][199][200] or technical assistance [201][202][203][204][205][206][207][208] as means to encourage forest management.…”

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Taxonomic Review of Classical and Current Literature on the Perennial American Family Forest Problem

Straka

2011

Forests

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Abstract:One of the fundamental issues in American forest policy has been the small forest ownership problem. Early in the twentieth century, it was called the farm forestry problem, later, the nonindustrial private forest problem, and today, the family forest problem. Family forest owners are thought to manage their lands in a suboptimal manner resulting in low forest productivity relative to other ownership groups. This can lead to future timber supply problems. The exact nature of the problem, especially its social and economic basis, was a common subject of early forestry research studies. This article includes many of the major nonindustrial private forest or family forest studies, from early to current, and classifies them both by themes used by other authors and categories that relate to major research areas in the current literature. A major focus of this literature deals with promoting management on family forest holdings and possible land management incentives and disincentives. Natural trends in family forest ownership, like parcelization, also impact upon forest management opportunities. By developing a taxonomy that classifies these studies by research objective, methodology, owner motivation, and problem definition, this article serves to organize the family forest literature in a manner that provides a temporal framework for better understanding the historical motivation for and development of family forest research in the United States.

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Understanding the management logic of private forest owners: A new approach

Cited by 50 publications

References 13 publications

Forest owner is more than her goal: a qualitative typology of Lithuanian owners

Forest owner is more than her goal: a qualitative typology of Lithuanian owners

A participatory approach to design a toolbox to support forest management planning at regional level

Taxonomic Review of Classical and Current Literature on the Perennial American Family Forest Problem

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