Family Forest Owners and Climate Change: Understanding, Attitudes, and Educational Needs

Grotta, Amy T.; Creighton, Janean H.; Schnepf, Christopher; Kantor, Sylvia

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“…aligning with findings from focus groups performed in the western U.S. five years prior to our interviews (Grotta et al 2013). However, a large majority of forest owners are implementing incidentally adaptive actions including thinning and general fuels management in service of other goals, including timber growth and yield, wildlife habitat, and wildfire risk mitigation.…”

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“…A growing number of studies investigate forest owner intentions and actions on climate change adaptation (Blennow and Persson 2009, Blennow 2012, Grotta et al 2013, Lawrence and Marzano 2014, van Gameren and Zaccai 2015, Sousa-Silva et al 2016, André et al 2017, Bissonnette et al 2017, Vulturius et al 2018. In Sweden, approximately 20% of nonindustrial private forest owners reported adapting their forest management to climate change in some way (Blennow andPersson 2009, Blennow 2012) while 40% reported an intention to adapt (Vulturius et al 2018).…”

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“…In Québec, eastern Canada, despite the majority reportedly perceiving anthropogenic climate change, three quarters of landowners perceive limited or nonexistent impacts on forests in the short and medium term and feel no need to adapt (Bissonnette et al 2017). Finally, a series of forest owner focus groups across the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Alaska in 2009-2010 found that very few reported changing or adapting forest management practices in response to climate change (Grotta et al 2013). To our knowledge there are no other studies of climate change adaptation among individual private forest owners in western North America.…”

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Climate change beliefs and forest management in eastern Oregon: implications for individual adaptive capacity

Boag¹,

Hartter²,

Hamilton³

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2018. Climate change beliefs and forest management in eastern Oregon: implications for individual adaptive capacity. Ecology and Society 23(4):1. https:// ABSTRACT. The management decisions of private landowners affect forest structure and composition, and may impact the resilience of forested regions. In this case study we assessed barriers to both intentional and incidental climate-adaptive forest management among nonindustrial private forest owners in eastern Oregon, USA. In this context, incidental adaptations result from synergies between climate-adaptive forest management and actions motivated by goals such as wildfire mitigation, which landowners may prioritize regardless of concerns about climate change. Through semistructured interviews we used qualitative analyses to identify barriers to adaptation, including subjective (cognitive and experiential) and structural barriers (social, political, and economic) by comparing individual cases. Overall, we found that intentional climate change adaptation had low salience among participants, though a large majority of forest owners were active managers motivated by other goals, contributing to widespread incidental adaptation. We found that nonindustrial private forest owners who engaged in or considered intentional climate adaptation actions generally believed that anthropogenic climate change is occurring. Many respondents perceived local environmental change, notably reduced snowpack, but this was not associated with adaptive actions or intentions. The few participants who considered or implemented intentional climate adaptation actions generally had written forest management plans containing both forest inventories and specific management goals. Improving access to resources for forest management planning may enhance fire-and climate-smart forest management by facilitating scenario visioning and formalizing intentions. Although climate change beliefs were subjective barriers to intentional climate adaptation, many of the same structural barriers limited intentional and incidental adaptation. Place-based education, reliable funding mechanisms, and cooperative approaches among landowners may enhance adaptive capacity and promote the resilience of these nonindustrial private forestlands.

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Climate change beliefs and forest management in eastern Oregon: implications for individual adaptive capacity

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“…Sunblad, Biel, and Gärling (2009) confirmed in a survey of different social groups concerning climate change that, as expected, experts were significantly more knowledgeable about climate change causes and consequences than journalists, politicians, and laypersons. Still, distrust of scientific research regarding climate change is common (Leiserowitz, Maibach, Roser-Renouf, Smith, & Dawson, 2012;Grotta, Creighton, Schnepf, & Kantor, 2013), particularly among specific age, socioeconomic, and political groups (Poortinga, Spence, Whitmarsh, Capstick, & Pidgeon, 2011). In this study, while there were some differences between the groups in determining which sources of information are the most useful, all three groups agreed that newspapers and magazines are the least important resources for acquiring climate change knowledge.…”

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Understanding Climate Change Perceptions, Attitudes, and Needs of Forest Service Resource Managers

Rodriguez-Franco

Haan

2015

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

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“…Ad esempio, mentre la protezione della fauna e della biodiversità, il miglioramento dello stato di salute del bosco e gli obiettivi finanziari fanno parte del "normale" orizzonte del proprietario forestale, il contributo della singola proprietà alla soluzione di problemi a più larga scala, quali la mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici e la regolazione dei cicli biogeochimici, viene scarsamente percepito (Grotta et al 2012). Questa mancata considerazione andrebbe attribuita ad una insufficiente disponibilità di informazioni, ad una generale difficoltà di comprensione dell'impatto generato dalle proprie scelte gestionali e alla carenza di preparazione tecnica.…”

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Determinants, attitudes and willingness of private forest owners to produce goods and services: a review of the international literature

Mozzato¹,

Gatto²

2016

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IntroduzioneC'è un gap informativo nei riguardi della proprietà forestale privata nella letteratura italiana del settore, che è invece ricca di analisi sulle caratteristiche e sulle forme di gestione della proprietà pubblica. La rinuncia ad includere, nell'universo di indagine dell'ultimo Censimento dell'Agricoltura (ISTAT 2010), le aziende esclusivamente forestali, ci ha infatti lasciati con dati obsoleti circa la numerosità dei conduttori, la forma e struttura della proprietà e la There is an information gap in the Italian literature with regards to private forest ownership, while several analysis are available on the characteristics and the management systems of public forest ownership. To address this gap, this paper presents the characteristics of private forest owners and their evolution in time by reviewing the international literature in the last three decades. The examined studies are reported according to four perspectives: (i) the available classifications and/or typologies of private forest owners; (ii) the determinants of different forest owners' behaviors, especially in relation to their objectives; (iii) the attitudes of forest owners and the motivations behind their management decisions; (iv) the valuation of the willingness to accept monetary compensations in return for the provision of ecosystem services. The results show a very complex picture, varying both in space and time. However, some recurring features can be identified: (i) not only are forest owners motivated by timber production goals, but also by other reasons, often very diversified and detached from market considerations; (ii) a "multi-functional" forest owner is by no means less active, but, conversely, is more active than a forest owner whose sole objective is timber production; (iii) in general, the active owner is a farmer whose family has owned the forest for many generations (and in this case he/she is more market-oriented), or is a new entry in the forestry sector; (iv) the "passive" owner is usually elderly, non-farmer and resides far from the property. In addition, the "absent" owner is a common problem to several of the examined geographical contexts. Although the results of the review cannot be transferred as such, they represent a useful starting point for similar analyses in the Italian context. Examining the determinants and attitudes of private forest owners in Italy would indeed prove interesting, given that private forest ownership in Italy represents a relevant share of total forest area and that the implementation of new policy tools such as payments for ecosystem services requires active participation by all key actors, including forest owners.Keywords: Private Forest Ownership, Forest Owners, Attitudes, Forest Owners', Typologies, Ecosystem ServicesReceived: Jun 25, 2015; Accepted: Mar 11, 2016; Published online: Apr 04, 2016 Citation: Mozzato D, Gatto P, 2016. Determinanti, attitudini e disponibilità alla produzione di beni e di servizi da parte dei proprietari forestali privati: una rassegna della letterat...

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Family Forest Owners and Climate Change: Understanding, Attitudes, and Educational Needs

Cited by 29 publications

References 31 publications

Climate change beliefs and forest management in eastern Oregon: implications for individual adaptive capacity

Climate change beliefs and forest management in eastern Oregon: implications for individual adaptive capacity

Understanding Climate Change Perceptions, Attitudes, and Needs of Forest Service Resource Managers

Determinants, attitudes and willingness of private forest owners to produce goods and services: a review of the international literature

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