Download or read book Family Forest Owner Attitudes and Preferences for Forest Conservation Programs in the New York City Watershed written by Matthew C. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Forest Owners Preferences and Conservation Decisions written by Moon Jeong Kang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this dissertation is to investigate family forest owners' preferences towards payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs. The research considers three factors, 1) individual risk preferences, 2) forest property characteristics, and 3) ownership objectives to analyze forest owners' decision to participate in PES programs. The primary objectives involve eliciting forest owners' individual risk preferences, collecting and analyzing information about forest property characteristics and ownership objectives and forest owners' preferences towards various PES program designs using a choice experiment. Mail and online surveys were conducted in the southeast Georgia to collect the data. The first study investigates the role of risk preferences in family forest owners' conservation decisions. Our study provides results using random parameter logit (RPL) model to analyze choice experiment survey data. The results reveal that one's level of risk aversion affects one's likelihood to participate in PES programs, as well as one's willingness to accept (WTA) compensation. The second study examines how observable forest management behavior reveals forest owners' preferences towards PES programs. Research findings confirm that there are significant correlations between the landowners' objectives and the composition of forest types. The RPL model results indicate that the existence of pine plantations and bottomland hardwoods forests on one's property significantly increases the likelihood that the forest owner will participate in PES programs. The third study explores the role of ownership objectives in forest management decisions. We develop an empirical typology of family forest owners. Market segmentation techniques including principal component analysis and cluster analysis are adopted to segment the forest owner groups. Our research findings confirm that there are differences between different ownership groups in how they manage the forest and their likelihood of participating in PES programs.
Download or read book Public Preferences and Willingness To Pay for Forest Conservation Programs That Protect Water Quality written by Melissa M. Kreye and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different levels of a monthly utility tax, how the program was implemented and program outcomes. Trust in government and biocentric attitudes towards forests also predicted WTP. To validate the results of the web survey I conducted an empirical investigation of voting behavior on local referendums to protect rural lands and water quality in the Eastern U.S held over the last 24 years. Results found the likelihood of a yes vote was driven by characteristics of the respondent and the type and amount of information presented in the referendum statement. In summary, the work presented in this dissertation suggest that public support and WTP for forest conservation programs is likely not independent of program design, which has implications for WTP/WTA estimation and reliance on existing studies to inform policy decisions and policy formation.
Download or read book Possibilities of Private Forest Management in New York State written by Cedric Hay Guise and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plant and Acquire Forests written by James Spencer Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forest land Owners of New York written by Thomas W. Birch and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Community Connections written by Ellen M Donoghue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. Dependency on timber extraction and timber-related industries is no longer a universal characteristic of the forest community. Remoteness is also a less common feature, as technology, workforce mobility, tourism, and 'amenity migrants' increasingly connect rural to urban places. Forest Community Connections explores the responses of forest communities to a changing economy, changing federal policy, and concerns about forest health from both within and outside forest communities. Focusing primarily on the United States, the book examines the ways that social scientists work with communities-their role in facilitating social learning, informing policy decisions, and contributing to community well being. Bringing perspectives from sociology, anthropology, political science, and forestry, the authors review a range of management issues, including wildfire risk, forest restoration, labor force capacity, and the growing demand for a growing variety of forest goods and services. They examine the increasingly diverse aesthetic and cultural values that forest residents attribute to forests, the factors that contribute to strong and resilient connections between communities and forests, and consider a range of governance structures to positively influence the well being of forest communities and forests, including collaboration and community-based forestry.
Download or read book Forests on the Edge written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The private working land base of America's forests is being converted to developed uses, with implications for the condition and management of affected private forests and the watersheds in which they occur. The Forests on the Edge project seeks to improve understanding of the processes and thresholds associated with increases in housing density in private forests and likely effects on the contributions of those forests to timber, wildlife, and water resources. This report, the first in a series, displays and describes housing density projections on private forests, by watershed, across the conterminous United States. An interdisciplinary team used geographic information system (GIS) techniques to identify fourth-level watersheds containing private forests that are projected to experience increased housing density by 2030. Results indicate that some 44.2 million acres (over 11 percent) of private forests--particularly in the East, where most private forests occur--are likely to see dramatic increases in housing development in the next three decades, with consequent impacts on ecological, economic, and social services. Although conversion of forest land to other uses over time is inevitable, local jurisdictions and states can target efforts to prevent or reduce conversion of the most valuable forest lands to keep private working forests resilient and productive.
Download or read book Climate Change Education written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forested land in the United States is an asset that is owned and managed not only by federal, state, and local governments, but also by families and other private groups, including timber investment management organizations and real estate investment trusts. The more than 10 million family forestland owners manage the largest percentage of forestland acreage (35 percent) and the majority of the privately owned forestland (62 percent). The Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for the stewardship of all of the nation's forests, has long worked with private owners of forestland on forest management and preservation. At a time when all forestland is facing intensified threats because of the long-term effects of global climate change, the Forest Service recognizes that family forestland owners play a key role in protecting forestland. It is working to identify optimal ways to engage this diverse group and support them in mitigating threats to the biologically diverse land they own or manage. Climate Change Education: Engaging Family Private Forest Owners on Issues Related to Climate Change is the summary of a workshop, convened by the National Research Council's Board on Science Education and Board on Environmental Change and Society as part of its Climate Change Education Roundtable series, to explore approaches to the challenges that face state foresters, extension agents, private forestry consultants, and others involved with private family forestland owners on how to take climate change into consideration when making decisions about their forests. The workshop focused on how findings from the behavioral, social, and educational sciences can be used to help prepare for the impacts of climate change. The workshop participants discussed the threats to forests posed by climate change and human actions; private forestland owners' values, knowledge, and dispositions about forest management, climate change, and related threats; and strategies for improving communication between forestland owners and service providers about forest management in the face of climate change.
Download or read book N Y Forest Owner written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Management Attitudes and Behaviors of Resident and Non resident Adirondack Nonindustrial Private Forest Owners written by Valerie Anne Luzadis Alden and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Watershed Management in New York Exclusive of Long Island written by Donald R. Satterlund and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Forest land Owners of New York written by Thomas W. Birch and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pamphlets on Forestry in New York written by Empire State Forest Products Association and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Watershed Management in New York Exclusive of Long Island written by Donald R. Satterlund and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Watershed Forestry Manual written by Karen Cappiella and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forest Resources of New York written by Peter Reynolds Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
