Understanding Management Decisions of Absentee Landowners: More Than Just Presence-Absence

Feeling at Home from A Distance? How Geographical Distance and Non-Residency Shape Sense of Place among Private Forest Owners

“…3. See Sorice, Rajala, and Kreuter (2018) for similar conclusions related to a quantitative study on absentee landowners in the US.…”

Understanding the Barriers to Adoption of Mixed-Species Herbivory in the Southern Great Plains of the United States

“…These include the landowner's age and education level (Feder et al 1985; Joshi and Mehmood 2011). In addition, prior research has found that landowners residing on their land devote more time and are more actively involved in land management activities compared with those who live far from their land (Sorice et al, 2012a; Butler et al 2016; Sorice et al 2018). Further, results from other natural resource management sector studies have revealed a positive association between the degree of active management and landholding sizes (Kluender and Walkingstick 2000; Zhang et al 2005).…”

Redefining Absentee: Towards Understanding Place Attachment and Stewardship in Non-Residential Landowners in Texas, USA

“…Compared to full-time landowners, ALs are less likely to participate in conservation due to the limited time spent on the land, disengagement from the land, insufficient land management experience, a lack of conservation knowledge, and limited contact with local natural resource professionals [9][10][11]. Although full-time residency and distance from the land help to distinguish ALs, scholars struggle to sufficiently explain ALs' heterogeneity and land management behaviors [12].…”

“…Although full-time residency and distance from the land help to distinguish ALs, scholars struggle to sufficiently explain ALs' heterogeneity and land management behaviors [12]. Limited research and the lack of a consistent definition further inhibit the understanding of this group [10]. To that end, little is known about ALs, a group who owns and possibly operates enough acreage to greatly affect watershed processes at the landscape scale.…”

“…To that end, little is known about ALs, a group who owns and possibly operates enough acreage to greatly affect watershed processes at the landscape scale. Specifically, their land management decisions are not well understood [10], including their motivations for landownership [13], engagement in conservation programs [11,14], and interactions within communities near the land's location [15]. Given the sheer amount of land in their ownership [16], ALs offer significant potential to protect the integrity of privately owned landscapes and the ecosystem goods and services that they support.…”