Land-use and land-base patterns in non-industrial private forests: Factors affecting forest management in Northern Spain |
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| Authors: | Verónica Rodríguez-Vicente Manuel F Marey-Pérez |
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| Institution: | 1. Galician Sectorial Forestry Association (ASEFOGA), Rúa Doutor Maceira 13-Baixo, 15706, Santiago de Compostela, Spain;2. Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Campus Universitario s/n, 27002, Lugo, Spain;1. Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA;2. Geography Department, Humboldt-University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany;3. Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14412 Potsdam, Germany;4. Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava, Branch Nitra, Akademická 2, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia;5. Department of Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosophers University in Nitra, Trieda A. Hlinku 1, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia;6. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany;7. Research Unit Landscape Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;8. Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland;9. Institute of Geomatics, Forest Opening-up and Water Management, University of West Hungary, Bajcsy-Zs. u. 4, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary;10. Institute of Forest Management and Rural Development, University of West Hungary, PO Box 132, H-9401 Sopron, Hungary;11. Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine;12. Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic;13. Department of Applied and Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 427 Lorch Court, Madison, WI 53706, USA;1. Key Laboratory of Special Animal and Plant Resource in Fanjing Mountain, College of Biology & Agro-forestry Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren 554300, PR China;2. Center for Agricultural Research Resources of Chinese Academy Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050021, PR China;3. Second Middle School of Tongren, Tongren 554300, PR China;4. Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry & Wildlife Resources Management, University of Calabar, Nigeria;1. INRA, UMR 356 Economie Forestière—AgroParisTech, Laboratoire d’Economie Forestière, Nancy, France;2. BETA CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France;1. State Key Laboratory of Environment Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China;2. Center for Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China;3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;4. Puding Karst Ecosystem Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Puding 562100, China;5. State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China;6. Institute of Surface-Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China;7. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Building, Lexington, KY, 40506-0053, United States;1. Northern Research Station, United States Forest Service, United States;2. Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, United States;3. Aldo Leopold Foundation, United States;4. Family Forest Research Center, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States;5. Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, United States |
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| Abstract: | There is increasing worldwide interest in land-use allocation and management within the sphere of rural planning and development. The study of land-use patterns mainly focuses on understanding the practices and values of individuals involved, and no debate of this issue would be complete without taking into account non-industrial private forest (NIPF) ownership as a key component in most rural areas worldwide. This paper empirically explores and assesses NIPF owners' management in terms of analysing dynamics in farming and forestry practices (past conversions from forestland to meadow and from marginal meadow to woodland, and intentions to change the current productive forest species and to extend the area of woodland) and landholding attributes (size and degree of parcellation in productive forestland). Logistic regression models were also used to investigate the probabilities and influencing factors involved in transforming marginal meadows to woodland, and attempts on the part of NIPF owners to change the current productive forest species and increase productive forestland. For this, a total of 103 NIPF owners in Northern Spain were interviewed in person, in March 2004, about their commitment to and involvement in land management during 1999–2003. The models correctly explained 73.3%, 83.7% and 73.3% of the variability in having converted marginal meadow in woodland and of future intentions to change the productive forest species and increase the area of productive forestland, respectively. The results of the study indicate that forest management mainly responds to investment and increasing the productivity of the land as a capital asset, which is directly influenced by the size and degree of parcellation of the holding, and directly or indirectly related to the owner's interest in timber production. The results may be used by forest professionals, researchers and policymakers in order to design and execute successful forest policies related to land management and planning. |
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