After the collective forest tenure reform, forestland transfer behavior choices did not reach policy expectations. In order to explore factors influencing of farmers’ and income effect transfer, this paper constructs a binary logistic regression model propensity score matching (PSM) uses data obtained from questionnaire survey 500 farmers 10 counties in Liaoning Province for quantitative analys...

While the vast majority of forestlands in Canada are considered “Crown land,” there key areas private forestland. On land incidents fee simple ownership mean owner emerges...

Families or family businesses own nearly all of the private redwood forestland in California. Family forest owners have practiced both subdivision and silviculture for decades but the dominant theme for most family owners is environmental stewardship. Parcel size is more important than expressed values as a predictor of resource management activities. All landowners with more than 50 acres unde...

Wildfire has brought about ecological, economic, and social consequences that engender human responses in many parts of the world. How to respond to wildfire risk is a common challenge across the globe particularly in areas where lands are controlled by many small private owners because effective wildfire prevention and protection require coordinated efforts of neighboring stakeholders. We expl...

Over the last decades, Vietnam has seen substantial shifts in forest landscape uses and associated livelihoods. We document livelihood transformations Nam Dong, a mountainous district of Central Vietnam, where land have changed from utilisation products natural forests shifting cultivation (swidden agriculture) to acacia tree-dominated plantation forestry. Forestry policies (forestland allocati...

Although non-industrial private forests (NIPF) provide significant habitat for a variety of species, limited information is available on how landowners would respond to the adoption of practices that promote biodiversity conservation on their lands. We examined NIPF landowner preferences for adopting four such practices-extending timber rotation age, extending riparian buffer strips, periodic p...

Timber harvesting and fuelwood collection have dramatically reduced the total amount of forestland around the world, including in China. To understand how timber harvesting and fuelwood collection activities affect use by wildlife, we examined giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) use within Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, southwest China. We evaluated giant panda use of habitat by obse...

By manifesting the response of land to human activity and impacts, degradation of forestland indicates the locations where society is in conflict with sustaining the forest environment. The analysis of land degradation in various land-use/cover patterns of Russia’s vast forest zone (about 1050 million ha, or 63% of the country) clearly demonstrates two human-induced problems, inappropriate tech...