The lay of the land: What we know about non-operating agricultural and absentee forest landowners in the U.S. and Europe.

Autor: Fairchild E; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland, WA, 99354, USA. Electronic address: ennea.fairchild@pnnl.gov., Ulrich-Schad JD; Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology, Utah State University, 0730 Old Main Hill, Room 216C, Logan, UT, 84322-0730, USA. Electronic address: jessica.schad@usu.edu., Petrzelka P; Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology, Utah State University, 0730 Old Main Hill, Room 216H, Logan, UT, 84322-0730, USA. Electronic address: peggy.petrzelka@usu.edu., Ma Z; Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, 190 Marsteller Street, FORS Room 111, West Lafayette, IN, 47909-2033, USA. Electronic address: zhaoma@purdue.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of environmental management [J Environ Manage] 2022 Jul 01; Vol. 313, pp. 114991. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 31.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114991
Abstrakt: While non-operating agricultural and absentee forest landowners across the U.S. and Europe are an important group of landowners, our understanding of them remains relatively limited. In this paper, we conduct a systematic literature review on these landowners to encapsulate a current lay of the land in terms of what we know about these landowners and move the dialogue on this topic forward. Eighty-one articles are identified in our search of empirical literature. For each of the landowner types, we discuss their demographics and the three primary themes that emerged related to land management: participation in land management decisions, attitudes regarding land use and ownership, and resource needs in working with these landowners. For agricultural non-operating landowners, we find limited participation in land management decisions, particularly among women, a variety of individual and social factors play a role in involvement, and while they have pro-conservation attitudes, implementation of conservation practices is more limited. Absentee forest landowners we find are more willing to use management plans, yet less willing to engage in active management and risk reduction. These landowners have a range of attitudes regarding land use, with studies highlighting recreation, conservation, and profit motivations. Our review concludes with identifying specific needs for more research and outreach on these landowners.
(Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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