Relationships between ownership objectives and owner characteristics

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Relationships between ownership objectives and
owner characteristics

• Tove Enggrob Boon
• Henrik Meilby
• Forest Landscape, Denmark
• Royal Vet. Agricultural University

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Case Danish private forest owners

• 11 forest
• 26,000 owners, 72 private COs
• 0.1 of GDP 146 mio. , ½ is greenery
• deficit in coniferous forestry (2/3 of area)
• 4,000 jobs
• ½ of red-list species are in forests
• 50 mio. visits/y, 91 of pop. once a year

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Forest area distributed on properties1/3 own
just 4 (lt2 ha) 1 own 1/3 (gt100 ha)
Kilde Larsen Johannsen 2002. Skove og
Plantager 2000
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METHOD

• Survey 2000 owners
• 80 response
• 27 questions
• who, objectives values, decisions practices
• Logistic models

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Survey issues

• Who are the private forest owners?
• Age,gender,vicinity,owner time bckg.,
• , agric.affiliation, role, forest char., geog.)
• Owner (objectives) values attitudes
• , benefits, visits, hunt, imp. intensity
• Owner practices (decisions, activities)
• activities, species choice, regeneration,
  pesticides, schemes info source/use

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Results

• Owner characteristics
• Ownership objectives
• Log Regression of relationships

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Forest owners are often (male) farmers

• 86 men, 53 y old, owned 20 y
• Agricultural affiliated
• 75 born at farm
• 84 own farmland
• 57 agr. education
• 80 live by forest
• 2/3 Farmer
• 9 inherited forest
• 59 keep in family
• 19 East Denmark
• Av. visitor days 106/year
• Forest area, deciduous/conif.

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ExampleImportance of wood earnings to ownership
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Apparently systematic differences, e.g.
Importance of forest earnings to ownership
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Relations between objectives characteristics?

• Logistic models
• and
• General linear models

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Strong Ownership Motivation

• Forest owner
• Male
• Large forest area
• Owns farmland
• Grown up on farm or close relatives
• East Denmark

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Financial importance - similar results

• Forest owner
• Male
• Large forest area
• Owns farmland
• Grown up on farm or!! no agricultural
  affiliation
• East Denmark
• Planted the forest himself
• Has an agri- or silvicultural education

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Forest for HobbyI.e. Forest work, hunting, other
recreation

• Female
• Full-time farmer
• Medium-sized forest
• Inherited forest or from spouse
• Hunting
• Frequency of hunting
• Male
• Income
• Young

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Flora and Fauna

• Visit frequency (hunting, recreation)
• Family with agr.affiliation, but not self

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Landscape aesthetics

• Visit frequency
• Forest area
• Forest owner
• Grown up on farm with forest
• Relatives in agriculture or no affiliation

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Public recreation

• - Hunting days
• Forest area

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Forest as a legacy

• Forest area
• Forest owner
• Agri- or silvicultural education
• Inherited or bought from family/friends
• - Income

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Forest owner Identity

• Forest area
• Forest owner
• Agri- or silvicultural education
• Inherited or bought from family/friends

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Discussion

• Forest area matters
• Socialisation matters
• Education on economy and identity
• Childhood farm relations on gen. importance,
  economy, landscape aesthetics, flora fauna
• How they got the forest
• But ownership length, dec./coniferous area did
  not, - age income hardly - mattered