Trends in private land conservation: Increasing complexity, shifting conservation purposes and allowable private land uses

Owley, Jessica; Rissman, Adena R.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.10.026

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“…While the CLTIP is different from conservation easements in several respects, such as the duration of the commitment and the extent to which land uses may be allowed (Owley and Rissman 2016), both types of conservation tools are voluntary, lead to property tax advantages, and largely aim to keep the targeted land in its current state. Farmer et al (2011) found that place attachment was the most important factor for private landowners to place a conservation easement on their land.…”

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Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Drescher¹,

Warriner²,

Farmer³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. Preservation of biodiversity and continued provision of ecosystem services increasingly relies on environmental conservation on private lands. Despite a multitude of past studies, our knowledge of the motives, opportunities, and challenges of private land conservation, especially on nonworking lands, where financial incentives are less relevant, remains incomplete. A key reason is that a variety of theoretical approaches, resulting in diverging study results, have been used to investigate private land conservation. To help remedy this problem, the current study rigorously examined several established social-psychological determinants of proenvironmental behaviors and developed a comprehensive model, which merged elements from previous studies, to investigate landowner participation in a government-sponsored private land conservation program for nonworking lands. The results are based on analysis of a mailed survey of 800 program-eligible landowners. Contrasting program participants with nonparticipants, we elicited information such as about values, worldviews, socio-demographic characteristics, and property attributes that led landowners to participate in this conservation program. The results of our study illustrate the complex relationships among values, worldviews, norms, attitudes, and behaviors emphasizing the importance of proenvironmental worldviews and of formal education for increasing the likelihood of enrollment in this government-sponsored private land conservation program. Against expectation, neither personal norms, household income, political leaning, nor the size of the eligible property area were found to be important in directly determining the decision to enroll in this conservation program. However, an association of political leaning with stated personal obligation for private land conservation was found. Our results highlight the relationship between formal education and achievement of private land conservation goals through governmental programs for nonworking lands; they also suggest opportunities for supporting conservationminded landowners who are disinclined to engage in governmental programs. To our knowledge, the current study is the first to use a comprehensive model to systematically compare alternative concepts from social psychology such as values, worldviews, norms, and attitudes and their relationships with private land conservation.

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Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Drescher¹,

Warriner²,

Farmer³

et al. 2017

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“…Throughout the state, conservation measures (such as zoning regulations, conservation purchases, conservation easements, etc.) have been designed to protect the health and function of coastal ecosystems, and to preserve the scenic, and recreational value of these lands (Endicott, 1993;Newburn, Reed, Berck, & Merenlender, 2005;Yonavjak & Gartner, 2011;Wilson et al, 2015;Owley & Rissman, 2016). However, a common challenge to policy makers, and resource managers is understanding the effectiveness of such policies.…”

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Avoided land use conversions and carbon loss from conservation purchases in California

Moanga

Schroeter

Ackerly

et al. 2018

Journal of Land Use Science

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Conversion of natural lands to residential and agricultural uses can limit carbon (C) storage. Conservation measures, such as purchasing land to prevent development, can preserve stored aboveground C. However, since it is difficult to know what would happen to the land in the absence of conservation interventions, the additional carbon benefit of these programs remains unknown. Therefore, we analyzed 73 coastal parcels (292,184 total acres) acquired by the California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) and developed counterfactual scenarios to highlight the impact of conservation actions. We found that an additional 55 * 10 3 Mg aboveground C (1.357% of the total stored carbon) was protected. The methodology we develop here, which incorporates expert opinion and neighboring land conversion trends, effectively evaluates the impact of conservation purchases to prevent land conversion, and could be used to measure changes of various ecosystem services. KEYWORDS: Land cover change; land use; landscape conservation; counterfactual analysis; highest and best use (HBU) of land Data To model land cover, we used geospatial data from the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LandFire) (Ryan & Opperman, 2013). The LandFire program is an interagency collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior initiated in response to the threat of mega-fires, and designed to provide consistent landscape scale data to help cross-boundary planning and land management (LandFire, n.d.). The LandFire database provides a comprehensive set of quantitative vegetation models and nationwide digital spatial data layers (30 m resolution) on vegetation cover, fire, disturbance regimes, and fuel loads (Ryan & Opperman, 2013). To effectively document land cover changes through time, we focused on differences in vegetation cover between the years 2001 and 2010. Among the properties studied, 39 were purchased during this time period (see Table A1 in Appendix). We chose this specific time frame because the aboveground C data (used to estimate the amount of avoided C emissions) was calculated by Gonzalez et al. (2015) for the time period 2001-2010.

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“…Incentive-based programs can suffer from problems in cost, efficacy, and enforcement, yet have advantages over more traditional practices (Griesedieck 2007) and both economic and social incentives can be used to promote many conservation programs. Easement and land purchases by land trusts can prevent development and raise community awareness for conservation (Milder and Clark 2011;Owley and Rissman 2016). But political and financial elements can make land trust operations complex.…”

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Conserving Nature through Land Trust Initiatives: A Case Study of the Little Traverse Conservancy, Northern Michigan, USA

Braddock

Heinen

2017

Natural Areas Journal

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Trends in private land conservation: Increasing complexity, shifting conservation purposes and allowable private land uses

Cited by 46 publications

References 17 publications

Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Avoided land use conversions and carbon loss from conservation purchases in California

Conserving Nature through Land Trust Initiatives: A Case Study of the Little Traverse Conservancy, Northern Michigan, USA

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