How Family Forest Owners Consider Timber Harvesting, Land Sale, and Conservation Easement Decisions: Insights from Massachusetts, USA
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Proximal Association of Land Management Preferences: Evidence from Family Forest Owners
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 bu...
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a USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, P.O. Box 12254, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2254, USA b USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 160 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA c Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, 160 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA d Family Forest Research Center, University of Massachusetts, 160 Hol...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Forestry Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1687-9368,1687-9376
DOI: 10.1155/2011/290353