Regulatory Intensity on Private Forestland and its Relationship with State Characteristics in the United States
Kamana Poudel,
Mindy S. Crandall,
Erin Clover Kelly
Abstract:Though the federal government impacts private forest management across the United States through legislation such as the Clean Water Act, state-level regulations applied to private forest landowners vary remarkably. Despite this diversity of policies, little is known about how variations in regulatory intensity (defined here as number of forestry regulations) correlate with state-level political and socioeconomic characteristics. In this study, we use a quantitative approach to explore the intensity of regulat… Show more
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