Program Participation Behavior of Nonindustrial Forest Landowners: A Probit Analysis

Nagubadi, Venkatarao; McNamara, Kevin T.; Hoover, William; Mills, Walter L.

doi:10.1017/s1074070800007343

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“…The results of this study indicated that diversification benefits of participating in a PES scheme increased when shifting from the stand level to landscape level. This confirms previous evidence suggesting that voluntary participation in PES contracts increases with land area size (Nagubadi et al 1996;Wilson 1997;Lynch and Lovell 2003;Milder et al 2010). In Figure 8, the landscape level efficiency frontiers are shown, both including and excluding other financial asset classes as alternative investments.…”

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A service-dominant perspective on payments for ecosystem service offerings

Matthies¹

2016

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The ecosystem service (ES) approach is a means of evaluating service value flows from ecosystems to humans for their wellbeing. The approach suggests that ecosystem functions are divided into categories according to the benefits derived and utilized by beneficiaries. The ES approach has become a tool for public and private decision-makers, driven by the need to more accurately incorporate environmental externalities into the value creation processes of economic actors.This research addresses two knowledge gaps within the ES literature. First, a service-centric approach to ES offerings is lacking, resulting in misuse of the appropriate concepts and terms when discussing their role in value networks and value creation. Second, there is limited available knowledge about how to efficiently internalize ES offerings within value networks.In the first article, a service-dominant value creation (SVC) framework, with supporting terms and concepts, was developed to guide interdisciplinary discussions about the role of ES offerings within value creation processes. The term value-in-impact was proposed as a means for discussing the trade-offs and impacts concerning ES offerings within those processes.The subsequent three articles addressed the following design aspects of Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) schemes: (1) sensitivity to parameter inputs, (2) price volatility impacts on service providers, and (3) behavioural economic contributions. Consideration for trade-offs among ES offerings, and between ES offerings and economic objectives were also incorporated. The results indicated that the holistic accounting of ES indicators, to determine the optimal species mixtures, and uncorrelated ES price interactions, to determine the optimal allocation of forest for conservation, led to ecological and financial diversification benefits for service providers. Nudging service providers also led to more socially efficient ES provisioning. In each case, the proposed Ecosystem Service Expectation Value (ESEV) was used to more accurately describe the perpetual provisioning of multiple ES offerings on forestland.

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A service-dominant perspective on payments for ecosystem service offerings

Matthies¹

2016

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“…One additional year of a respondent's age increased the probability of re-enrollment by 3.0% (Table 1). Because farming and reconverting GTGP land plots to agriculture are labor intensive, re-enrolling these land plots in the PES program would be a convenient way for older people to reduce labor demand (34,55). Respondents' gender also affected the program re-enrollment.…”

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Linking social norms to efficient conservation investment in payments for ecosystem services

Chen¹,

Lupi

He³

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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An increasing amount of investment has been devoted to protecting and restoring ecosystem services worldwide. The efficiency of conservation investments, including payments for ecosystem services (PES), has been found to be affected by biological, political, economic, demographic, and social factors, but little is known about the effects of social norms at the neighborhood level. As a first attempt to quantify the effects of social norms, we studied the effects of a series of possible factors on people's intentions of maintaining forest on their Grain-to-Green Program (GTGP) land plots if the program ends. GTGP is one of the world's largest PES programs and plays an important role in global conservation efforts. Our study was conducted in China's Wolong Nature Reserve, home to the world-famous endangered giant pandas and >4,500 farmers. We found that, in addition to conservation payment amounts and program duration, social norms at the neighborhood level had significant impacts on program re-enrollment, suggesting that social norms can be used to leverage participation to enhance the sustainability of conservation benefits from PES programs. Moreover, our results demonstrate that economic and demographic trends also have profound implications for sustainable conservation. Thus, social norms should be incorporated with economic and demographic trends for efficient conservation investments.China ͉ Grain-to-Green Program ͉ program re-enrollment ͉ stated choice ͉ sustainability

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“…Several studies about the adoption of new technologies and practices in agriculture revealed that producer's socio-economic attributes play an important role (e.g., Adesina and Chianu, 2002;Banerjee et al, 2008;Kim, Gillespie, and Paudel, 2005;Nagubadi et al, 1996;Nkamleu and Adesina, 2000;Paudel et al, 2008;Rahm and Huffman, 1984;Ward et al, 2008). The age of the primary producer is represented by the variable AGE.…”

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Best Management Practices to Enhance Water Quality: Who is Adopting Them?

Ghazalian

Larue

West

2009

J. Agric. Appl. Econ.

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This study investigates the determinants affecting producers' adoption of some Best Management Practices (BMPs). Priors about the signs of certain variables are explicitly accounted for by testing for inequality restrictions through importance sampling. Education, gender, age, and on-farm residence are found to have significant effects on the adoption of some BMPs. Farms with larger animal production are more apt to implement manure management practices, crop rotation, and riparian buffer strips. Also, farms with larger cultivated acres are more inclined to implement herbicide control practices, crop rotation, and riparian buffer strips. Belonging to an agro-environment club has a positive impact for most BMPs.

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Program Participation Behavior of Nonindustrial Forest Landowners: A Probit Analysis

Cited by 103 publications

References 12 publications

A service-dominant perspective on payments for ecosystem service offerings

A service-dominant perspective on payments for ecosystem service offerings

Linking social norms to efficient conservation investment in payments for ecosystem services

Best Management Practices to Enhance Water Quality: Who is Adopting Them?

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