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Showing 1 to 20 of 348 for “"Landowners"”.
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The interests of landowners on the metropolitan fringe
… results in part from the decisions of individual landowners regarding the use, subdivision, development, sale, or transfer of land. These decisions are related to owners' interests in their land: the set of benefits, derived from ownership, that enhance owners' physical, financial, or emotional …
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An analysis of urban growth controls with resident landowners
… a generalized growth-control model with resident landowners. It is shown that resident landowners have a weaker taste for growth control than their absentee counterparts. The reason is that resident landowners ignore the rent increase on the land they occupy, because they pay that rent to …
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Factors affecting the conservation of renosterveld by private landowners
… of remnants not deliberately conserved by landowners. This new approach has potential for determining which remaining natural sites most urgently need preservation. It was demonstrated that agro-technical innovation poses a long-term threat to even the low agricultural 'threat' rated …
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Riparian landowners' perceptions of recreational use of Virginia's waterways
… the background characteristics of the riparian landowners of Virginia, to identify any problems with river recreationists, and to explore their attitudes toward recreational boating on their river and toward scenic river designations. During the summer of 1977 a mailback questionnaire was sent …
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Opposition and Barriers to Conservation Easements: Insights from Montana Landowners
… Moreover, understanding how non-participating landowners view CEs, how they regard the incentives, and how CEs fit or do not fit with their ideas regarding private property and conservation is of critical importance for conservationists in this field. This study investigated the barriers to …
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Opposition and Barriers to Conservation Easements: Insights from Montana Landowners
… Moreover, understanding how non-participating landowners view CEs, how they regard the incentives, and how CEs fit or do not fit with their ideas regarding private property and conservation is of critical importance for conservationists in this field. This study investigated the barriers to …
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… While conducting research into private forest landowners, significant difficulties were noted within the forestry milieu over understanding complex socio-material systems. Consequently, an assertion was made that there exists a single research rationality that has epistemic (knowledge) and …
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… While conducting research into private forest landowners, significant difficulties were noted within the forestry milieu over understanding complex socio-material systems. Consequently, an assertion was made that there exists a single research rationality that has epistemic (knowledge) and …
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Federal Timber Income Taxes and Private Forest Landowners in the U.S
… risen among forestry professionals that forest landowners are unaware of federal income tax provisions available to them that make forest management more cost effective. This concern specifically focuses on nine provisions. These nine provisions are: the treatment of timber income as capital …
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Prescribed Fire Perspectives of African American Landowners in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
African American landownership is decreasing in the southeastern United States. At the same time, prescribed fire use, research, and outreach are increasing. This disparity between changing landowner demographics and a renewed interest in a historically prevalent land management tool has prompted a …
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Investigating Determinants of Collaboration between Landowners and Wildlife Agencies for Endangered Species Conservation
… chronically unpopular among different groups of landowners because of deficient social capital (e.g., communication and relationships) and value conflicts with agencies and programs. To bridge the gap between wildlife agencies and landowners, I investigated strategic communication processes …
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Television, mass media, and environmental cultivation: a study of private forest landowners in Delaware
… goal of this study was to survey private forest landowners in Delaware to extend previous studies into “environmental cultivation,” a research perspective that explores the theoretical link between television exposure and potential differences in the ecological worldviews of lighter versus …
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A Study of Cooperative Ventures Addressing the Needs of Forest Landowners in Southern Appalachia
… economic, and ecological conditions for forest landowners throughout the United States. One possible response to these new and recurring challenges is economic cooperatives, an old idea being retooled and reapplied, keeping more of the power, control, and profit generated by natural resource …
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Private Forest Landowners in Virginia and Ecosystem Management: An Analysis of Attitudes and Opportunities
… analyzed the attitudes and characteristics of landowners that contribute to their decision to enroll in such a program. Data were collected by a 8-page mail questionnaire sent to 2000 landowners in a five-county area of Southwest Virginia. The final sample size resulting from this effort was …
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Investigating the Cooperative Behavior of Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners when Stands are Spatially Interdependent
… behavior of nonindustrial private forest landowners, and their use of forestland for non-timber amenities, is affected by adjacent landowner behavior. The uncertainty an individual landowner has regarding adjacent landowners' preferences, and how the production of non-timber amenities on …
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New Landowners in Virginia's Forest: A Study of Motivations, Management Activities, and Perceived Obstacles
… that somewhat resemble "traditional" forest landowners. The results suggest that "lifestyle" concerns are the major motivations of these new owners and seemingly determine receptivity to professional forestry advice. This analysis helps understand these differently motivated segments and …
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Combined federal-state death tax implications for nonindustrial private forest landowners in the United States
… may be quite different from society, forest landowners are one group who face potentially serious problems due to death taxes. Illiquidity, low cash flows and credit problems can cause difficulties for heirs of forest land. Death taxes are examined from a historical, legal and economic …
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Stumpage price expectations: an empirical analysis of nonindustrial private landowners in the Mid-Atlantic states
… coefficients for personal characteristics of landowners are in general considered insignificant, indicating the lack of influence that personal characteristics have on these decision processes
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