Property Rights Orientations and Rangeland Management Objectives: Texas, Utah, and Colorado

Kreuter, Urs P.; Nair, Malini; Jackson-Smith, Douglas B.; Conner, J. Richard; Johnston, Janis E.

doi:10.2111/05-173r1.1

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“…The distribution of benefits and burdens has been explored in great detail with numerous case studies. This is true even inside conservation literature, because we know the importance of landowner incentives and compensation schemes (see Farrier 1995, Brook et al 2003, Kreuter et al 2006, Muradian et al 2013). However, we know much less about the perceived fairness of conservation policy (Olive 2014, Pascual et al 2014 and even less about the importance of landowner recognition.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The problem is that empirical studies indicate that many landowners think ESA policy is unfair to them as landowners and citizens, at least from a distributive justice standpoint. Kreuter et al (2006), for example, found that landowners in Colorado, Texas, and Utah generally disagreed with the notion that landowners should protect endangered species habitat without compensation from the public. Similarly, Brook et al (2003Brook et al ( :1641 found a positive correlation between landowners who thought they should not "bear financial responsibility" for conservation and those indicating that they managed their properties to minimize the chance of an endangered species occupying it.…”

Section: Environmental Justice and The Esasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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It is just not fair: the Endangered Species Act in the United States and Ontario

Olive¹

2016

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ABSTRACT. The United States and the Canadian province of Ontario have enacted endangered species laws that regulate private land. The rationale for this is that the vast majority of endangered species in the two countries rely on private lands for survival. However, from a landowner perspective the law is deemed unfair. This paper presents analysis from 141 interviews with landowners in three U.S. states and Ontario. In recognition of distributive justice claims, both the U.S. government and the Ontario government have enacted programs aimed at increasing financial incentives for participation and compliance with the law. However, the law is still perceived as unfair. The central argument of this paper is that future amendments and new policies for endangered species should confront two other forms of environmental justice: procedural justice and justice-as-recognition. Landowners in both countries expressed not only concerns about compensation, but also a deep desire to be included in the protection and recovery process, as well as to be recognized by government and society as good stewards of the land. The paper concludes by stating that future policy amendments need to address justice-as-recognition if endangered species conservation on private lands is to be considered fair by landowners.

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Section: Environmental Justice and The Esasmentioning

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It is just not fair: the Endangered Species Act in the United States and Ontario

Olive¹

2016

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“…Previous research on rangeland conservation has focused on the microlevel factors that influence the individual decisions of landowners, including how land-ownership motivations influence willingness to participate in conservation practices , landowner attitudes and goals (Morton et al 2010), trust among members of cooperative land management groups (Toledo et al 2014), and perceptions of risk (Kreuter et al 2008, Toledo et al 2013, which have all been related to a landowner's willingness to engage in rangeland conservation practices. In addition, feelings of social responsibility and property rights orientations have been connected to landowner decision-making with regard to adopting conservation practices (Kreuter et al 2006). Lastly, cultural and lifestyle motivations are widely recognized to be more important than economic motivations (Gentner and Tanaka 2002, Torell et al 2001, Brunson and Huntsinger 2008.…”

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A life course approach to understanding social drivers of rangeland conversion

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Sorice³

2017

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ABSTRACT. Grassland to woodland conversion, also known as woody plant encroachment (WPE), is a global-scale phenomena caused in large part by changes in social processes that affect rural land use patterns. Woody plant encroachment has raised serious concerns for species conservation, provision of ecosystem services, and viability of rural livelihoods and cultures. We examined the social drivers of WPE using a case study of rangelands in a semi-arid watershed. We employed the life course framework to understand how ranchers have made land ranch management decisions in the context of time, culture, and social change. We interviewed landowners whose families have been on the land for at least two generations to examine (1) the social context influencing a landowner's decision to increase or decrease their involvement in ranching over their life span, and (2) the historical events that facilitated constrained involvement. We relate these changes in involvement to the expansion of woody plants. Three major turning points were related to changes in ranching involvement: graduating high school, retirement, and infirmity of a parent. We found that changes in ranching involvement were influenced by large-scale shifts in culture, market regulations, and land values throughout the 20th century. These shifts led to three behavioral changes on the land that facilitated WPE: (1) changes in livestock following the collapse of the sheep and goat market, (2) increased popularity of hunting, and (3) decreased labor availability on the ranch. These observations illustrate the complex social and ecological forces at work throughout the 20th century that have led to land transformation in central Texas.

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“…Social networks are key in disseminating new information and facilitating adoption of innovations (Brodt et al, 2004;Didier and Brunson, 2004;Farmar-Bowers and Lane, 2009;Huntsinger and Hopkinson, 1996;Kreuter et al, 2006;Lubell and Fulton, 2008;Lubell et al, 2013;Marshall et al, 2011). Formal and informal education can affect issue awareness, which may ultimately alter the range of decisions available to an individual (Kurz, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Personal attitudes and values are often argued to shape beliefs and, ultimately, individual decisions and adoption of management goals and practices (Brodt et al, 2004;Brunson and Burritt, 2009;Didier and Brunson, 2004;Farmar-Bowers and Lane, 2009;Kreuter et al, 2006;Lubell, 2007;Lubell et al, 2013;Marshall et al, 2011;Smith et al, 2007). We collected responses to a number of personal attitude statements, using a 1 to 5 scale that ranged from "fully disagree" to "fully agree" (Table 1).…”

Section: Operator Attitudes and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%