Nonindustrial private forest landowner participation in incentive programs and regeneration behavior.

详细信息   

• 作者：Sun ; Xing.
• 学历：Master
• 年：2007
• 导师：Munn, Ian A.
• 毕业院校：Mississippi State University
• 专业：Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.;Economics, General.
• ISBN：9780549413547
• CBH：1451441
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：377039
• Pages：93

文摘

Nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners have been major players in increasing forest productivity and improving forest health. Understanding what factors influence landowner participation in government programs, and what factors determinate how quickly after harvest landowners regenerate, is critical for developing policies to improve landowner behavior. The data were obtained through a 2006 telephone survey of randomly selected Mississippi NIPF landowners. A two-step landowner behavior model was constructed to explain NIPF landowner participation in government incentive programs, conditional on their awareness. The second study used duration analysis to analyze the time elapsed between harvest and regeneration. Interest in timber production, past regeneration experience, education, and membership in forestry organization influenced landowner awareness of incentive programs and were significant predictors of participation. The interval between harvest and reforestation was reduced by maintaining an interest in timber production, consulting forester for harvest, residing on forest land, having planted pines, and increasing timber prices.;Key words: Duration analysis, incentive programs, nonindustrial forest landowners, participation behavior, reforestation delay, two-step estimation