Making Decisions About Forestland Succession: Perspectives from Pennsylvania's Private Forest Landowners

Gruver, Joshua; Metcalf, Alexander L.; Muth, Allyson; Finley, James C.; Luloff, A. E.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2016.1180728

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“…Land management behaviors across types of landowners, including absentees, have been investigated from the perspective of the owner-land relationship [40]. While research focusing on the relationship between ALs and their properties is limited, investigations into the owner-land relationship across landowner categories can provide insights into understanding how ALs feel about their land [41][42][43][44][45][46][47].…”

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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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Section: Owner-land Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…As Markowski-Lindsay et al [7] believe, age, forest area and education level have a significant impact on forest land transfer plans. Gruver et al [17] also pointed out that family members' emotional dependence on forests have an impact on the ownership and use rights of forests.…”

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The Influence of Farmers’ Cognition on Forest Land Transfer Behavior: A Case Study of Chengdu City

Cheng,

Liu,

et al. 2023

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In the context of China’s forest rights reform, promoting forest land circulation is the key to revitalizing forest land resources and promoting the development of the forestry industry. Based on the theoretical analysis of the effect of farmers’ cognition on forest land transfer behavior, data from 790 farmers in typical areas of Chengdu were used for empirical testing with the binary logit model. At the same time, the effects of the cognitive differences of the farmers with different education levels on forest land circulation are discussed. Finally, appropriate instrumental variables were selected to modify the model, and the IV probit model was used to test the endogeneity of the model. The results showed that the (1) farmers’ cognition had a significant positive effect on the forest land transfer behavior. Among them, in the order of the degree of impact, were the following: ecological cognition, policy cognition, risk cognition, social regulation, and benefit cognition. (2) Among the groups with different education levels, farmers with lower education levels will consider more aspects than farmers with higher education levels when choosing to transfer forest land. By broadening the research into the cognitive composition of farmers, this study deepens our understanding of the influence of farmers’ cognition on forest land transfer behavior. Moreover, it is found that Chinese farmers have strong ecological rationality in addition to economic rationality, and ecological cognition plays a greater role in forest land transfer behavior than benefit cognition, which is of considerable significance for further research on forest land transfer behavior.

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“…Additionally, most owners are interested in passing on forestland to future heirs (Butler et al 2020). Leaving a legacy for future owners' enjoyment/use is important to many FFOs, highlighting the emotional attachment and sense of responsibility many owners feel toward both biophysical and social attributes associated with their property (Gruver et al 2017). These individuals and families are often passionate about wanting to "do the right thing" for their land, which oftentimes involves avoiding behaviors they believe will damage the land (Quartuch and Beckley 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A small but growing body of recent work on the topic has begun to reveal a number of psychological, contextual, structural and socio-demographic factors that appear to play important roles in promoting and inhibiting forest-related legacy planning (Markowski-Lindsay et al 2017;Gruver et al 2017;Withrow-Robinson et al 2013). In early work on the topic, Broderick et al (1994) found that respondents' age and educational attainment level were both positively associated with interest in keeping forests protected from development.…”

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Applying the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Legacy Planning Decisions

Quartuch

Allred

Markowitz³

et al. 2021

Small-scale Forestry

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Approximately 1.2 million family forest landowners (FFOs) manage nearly 37 million acres of forestland in five New England states. This means that efforts to sustain and conserve forests in the region are contingent upon short-and long-term management decisions of these owners. We applied the transtheoretical model of behavior change to understand which activities and behaviors FFOs have pursued in relation to forest legacy planning. We conducted a regional mail survey of 2500 FFOs across Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Findings indicate that the majority of FFOs are preparing for or are currently engaging in beginning-level legacy planning decisions while few are thinking about nor planning for more advancedlevel decisions. Findings from three stepwise multiple regression models also provide support for predicting a substantive amount of variance in FFOs' decisions to engage in beginning-level and conservation-oriented planning decisions.

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Making Decisions About Forestland Succession: Perspectives from Pennsylvania's Private Forest Landowners

Cited by 23 publications

References 35 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

The Influence of Farmers’ Cognition on Forest Land Transfer Behavior: A Case Study of Chengdu City

Applying the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Legacy Planning Decisions

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