Proximal Association of Land Management Preferences: Evidence from Family Forest Owners.

ABSTRACT: Individual behavior is influenced by factors intrinsic to the decision-maker but also associated with other individuals and their ownerships with such relationship intensified by geographic proximity. The land management literature is scarce in the spatially integrated analysis of biophysical and socio-economic data. Localized land management decisions are likely driven by spatially-explicit but often unobserved resource conditions, influenced by an individual's own characteristics, proximal lands and fellow owners. This study examined stated choices over the management of family-owned forests as an example of a resource that captures strong pecuniary and non-pecuniary values with identifiable decision makers. An autoregressive model controlled for spatially autocorrelated willingness-to-h

SUBMITTER: Aguilar FX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5218549 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature