Probabilistic typology of management decision making in private forest properties

Ficko, Andrej; Bončina, Andrej

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2012.11.001

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“…Duncker et al 2012;Gamfeldt et al 2013;Ninan and Inoue 2013). This tendency is especially strong in regions (such as Sweden or Slovenia) where private forests are open to the general public (Eriksson 2012;Ficko and Boncina 2013). Where forests are closed to the public, access to public goods and services such as recreation or aesthetics is clearly limited (Urquhart and Courtney 2011;Finley and Kittredge 2006).…”

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“…Additionally, such information can inform the development of simulation models as a means of representing interactions and feedbacks between ''agents'' (i.e. entities with autonomous behaviour depicting real-world actors) and their environment, a priority for the provision of improved insight and understanding of socio-ecological systems (Ferber 1999;Rounsevell et al 2012).…”

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Characterising forest owners through their objectives, attributes and management strategies

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Changes in forest land use and management arise from the decisions of individual forest owners. To gain a better understanding of forest owner decision-making and its implications for forest land-use change, we develop a forest owner functional typology based on a meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative information about forest owners and their decision-making strategies across the developed world. From this typology, we develop an index of forest owner sustainability. We find nine broad forest owner functional types: industrial productionist, non-industrial productionist, for-profit recreationist, for-profit multi-objective, non-profit multiobjective, recreationalist, species conservationist, ecosystem conservationist and passive owner. These owner types align along three gradients representing (1) their economic focus, (2) the intensity of their management practices and (3) the type of goods and services they provide (private vs. public). We also find that multi-objective and conservationist owners generally practise the most sustainable forms of forest management and industrial productionists the least sustainable in terms of triple bottom line sustainability. Supracontinental land owner typologies of this kind can be useful in assisting international policy making and in developing resource management programmes. We suggest that future studies should investigate forest owner typologies in the developing world, forest owner information-sharing networks, and the ways in which forest owners learn and adapt to environmental change.

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“…Boon et al (2004) per la Danimarca e Bieling (2004) per la Germania giungono a conclusioni simili a quelle già citate, con l'aggiunta di una figura di proprietario "hobbista", il quale vuole svagarsi lavorando all'interno del suo bosco. In un lavoro riferito alla Slovenia, paese in cui la copertura forestale è molto estesa e la selvicoltura ha tuttora un certo ruolo nelle aree rurali, Ficko & Boncina (2013) individuano proprietari materialists, le cui decisioni sono legate all'estrazione di prodotti in un contesto di efficienza economica e gestionale, e proprietari non-materialists, i quali, invece, gestiscono la proprietà forestale soprattutto per valori di non uso.…”

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“…• applicazioni di analisi statistica multivariata (analisi fattoriale, cluster analysis, analisi delle componenti principali e altre) impiegate principalmente per ottenere le tipologie di classificazione dei proprietari forestali (Greene & Blatner 1986, Kuuluvainen et al 1996, Karppinen 1998a, Erickson et al 2002, Boon et al 2010 degli stessi, impiegati allo scopo di identificare i fattori determinanti dei comportamenti e delle attitudini gestionali ed ambientali dei proprietari (Jamnick & Beckett 1987, Romm et al 1987, Løy-land et al 1995, Lidestav & Ekström 2000, Størdal et al 2008, Joshi & Arano 2009, Boon et al 2010, Markowski-Lindsay et al 2011, Ficko & Boncina 2013); • modelli di scelta discreta, utilizzati per individuare la disponibilità ad accettare compensazioni monetarie volte a determinare un cambiamento positivo nel comportamento dei NIPFs nei confronti delle tematiche ambientali (Kline et al 2000, Horne 2006, Vedel et al 2013). …”

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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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“…A significant body of private forest ownership literature on owner attitudes, beliefs, objectives, and motivations shows that a substantial share of private forest owners manage their properties for noncommodity objectives (Dhubháin et al 2007), which do not always correlate with sociodemographic parameters (e.g., Ficko and Boncina 2013). Moreover, there is a lack of empirical studies on whether the harvesting behavior of private owners correlates to a specific representation of forest management that might differ from the scientific representation of forest management.…”

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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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Probabilistic typology of management decision making in private forest properties

Cited by 40 publications

References 46 publications

Characterising forest owners through their objectives, attributes and management strategies

Characterising forest owners through their objectives, attributes and management strategies

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

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

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