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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"private landowners"”.
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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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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… theoretical and critical discourse amongst the private landowner research community. 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 …
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… theoretical and critical discourse amongst the private landowner research community. 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 …
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Stumpage price expectations: an empirical analysis of nonindustrial private landowners in the Mid-Atlantic states
… expenditure decisions by the non-industrial private forest owner, incorporating different distributed lag formulations to account for price expectations. The estimated models for the short-run harvest decision, using cross sectional non-aggregated data, indicates that price expectations play …
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Sustainable Estates for the 21st Century: The motivations of landowners in upland Scotland: Exploring challenges to sustainability
… Large areas of these uplands are owned by private landowners who make significant decisions on land-use. However, past research has provided little insight into landowner decision-making: it is out-dated, inconsistent and offers limited explanation of underlying motives and priorities. In …
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The Role of Private Landownership in Facilitating Sustainable Rural Communities in Upland Scotland
Privately-owned estates dominate Scotland’s uplands, and their owners’ decisions greatly influence rural communities. While the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 has altered power relations in rural areas, its impact on landowner-community dynamics has received little attention. Discourse on the …
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Human Dimensions of Young Forest Conservation Programs: Effects of Outreach, Post-Program Management, and a Coupled Systems Perspective
… Conservation Service programs that provide private landowners with financial and technical assistance to manage for young forest habitat in the eastern United States. We conducted a telephone survey to investigate private landowner experiences during and after participation in these NRCS …
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A Human-Centered Approach to Designing an Invasive Species Eradication Program
… was to understand the propensity for engaging private landowners in an effort to eradicate an invasive species on an inhabited island. Specifically, I investigated private landowner perspectives on eradicating the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) from the Tierra del Fuego (TDF) island …
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A survey of landowner attitudes toward posting and fee hunting and fishing on private land in Southwest Virginia
… regarding the socio-economic characteristics of private landowners pertinent to their views on access control and fee hunting and fishing. A total of 495 questionnaires, 33.0% of the 1,500 mailed to landowners in urban, mixed urban-rural, and rural counties, were returned and found usable. The …
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Drivers of farmer-African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) conflict in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve, South Africa
… causes of human-carnivore conflict specific to private landowners and the African wild dog in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa between April 2018 and January 2019. The causes of conflict in the Waterberg and levels of tolerance by the farmers for African wild dogs …
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Exotic Invasive Plants on Private Woodlands of Virginia: Effects on forest composition, structure, and wildlife habitat
… issue in the Southeastern United States for private landowners. These plants possess characteristics that allow for rapid growth and easy adaptation to many growing conditions, often outcompeting native vegetation and altering wildlife habitat, especially in disturbed areas. Disturbance, …
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Ecosystem Transformation Across a Changing Social Landscape: Landowner Perceptions and Responses to Woody Plant Encroachment
… Plains of the United States where the actions of private landowners are integral to sustaining grasslands. Increased diversity in landowners’ motivations for owning land have shifted the social landscape of rural areas necessitating a better understanding of landowners’ perspectives about WPE and …
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Three essays on conservation: policy design, risk management and impact evaluation
… that are sufficient to forestall conversion of private land to commercial activities that increase deforestation. This study assumes that private landowners face uncertainties in the benefits that they can get from competing land use alternatives, namely, conservation and conversion. The two …
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The Role of the Lessor s Tacit Hypothec and Accession as Common Law Protection Measures for Landowners in Solar Energy Power Purchase Agreements
The demand for renewable solar energy in private businesses is becoming a key component in everyday operations given today's energy climate in South Africa. A hurdle in integrating solar energy into a private business is the capital outlay required by the landowner to install the necessary solar …
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Targeting Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowner Groups for Timber Market Entry
… timber market entry decisions of nonindustrial private landowners. It involves examining reservation prices both for harvesting timber from existing forest land and for afforestation of marginal agricultural and abandoned land. An important conclusion drawn from these models is that financial …
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Distributional economic impacts of Civil War battlefield preservation alternatives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
… Civil War battlefield sites under the press of private development has initiated new nation-wide preservation efforts of remaining unpreserved battlefield sites by both the public and private sectors. However, preservation efforts of Civil War sites are encumbered when little or no market …
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Pilot Validation of VSMOKE with Implications for Smoke Management Regulations
… Regulations can severely limit burn managers and private landowners from using Rx as a forest management tool. This research can help us move away from these simplistic regulations, and help promote a regulatory environment in which scientific tools and knowledge are used to prohibit only …
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Wood Duck Use and Nesting Success in Artificial Nesting Structures in Eastern South Dakota
… in POW boxes, a concern among some managers and private landowners, was evaluated. Results showed plastic boxes experienced greater maximum temperatures than wooden boxes, and greater differences in daily maximum/minimum ranges. However, in 1992, a very cool summer, interior temperatures in POW …
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Resident Participation in Watershed Management: Preference for Riparian Landscapes, Attitudes, and Behaviors- Case Study of Cedar River Watershed, Washington
… of the River, but to the flood mitigation of private riverfront properties. Therefore, engaging the residents along the river is a primary concern of local non-profit conservation organizations such as Forterra. Successful communication with private landowners begins with an understanding of …
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