EFFE: Evaluating Financing of Forestry in Europe

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EFFE Evaluating Financing of Forestry in Europe
The interactions between forest owners and the
success of financial programs
Inge Serbruyns, Sebastiaan Luyssaert
This project is carried out with the financial
support from the Commission of the European
Communities, DG Research - Quality of Life and
Management of Living Resources Programme under
the contract number QLK5-CT-2000-01228.
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The interactions between forest owners and the
success of financial programs

• Situating Belgium

2. Forest policy in Flanders
3. Problem definition
4. Data and methodology
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusions
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1. Situating Belgium

Flanders
Walloon Region
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1. Situating Belgium

• ? Characteristics
• Walloon region
• inh/km2 200
• forest index 30
• private 45

Flanders 440 10 70
fragmented forest area 70 lt 10ha 15
lt 1 ha
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2. Forest policy in Flanders

• ? Legislation
• A. Forest Act 1990 ? Renewed Forest Act 1999
• - Aim protection, management and restoration
  of forests and their natural environment together
  with the creation of new forests
• - public and private forests !
• B. Act on nature conservation and natural
  environment 1997
• - Aim importance of ecological functions of
  forests
• - Setting up a Flemish Ecological Network

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3. Problem definition

• ? Extreme situation in Flanders
• small and fragmented private forests
• high social and ecological demands on forest

• ? Aim Best instruments to use ?
• Evaluation ? carrots subsidies
• Possibilities ? sticks regulations
• ? sermons advice, information

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4. Data and methodology

• ? Region Flanders
• n 100,000 102,000 ha

? Personal interviews response rate 78
N400

• ? Questionnaire
• 100 ? 30 questions
• General onwner and forestland characteristics
• Attitudes
• Use of subsidies
• Knowledge
• .....

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4. Data and methodology
? A. Empirical typology Motivations and
attitudes Principal Component Analysis
(PCA) Cluster Analysis on PC scores
? B. Owner and forestland characteristics Logisti
c regression age, education, forest type, ....
? C. Use of carrots ANOVA
? D. Acceptance of sticks and sermons ANOVA
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5. Results and discussion

• ? A. Empirical typology
• 15 statements motivations (Pietarinens
  typology)
• opninion (attitudes) on forest policy

? Principal component analysis 4
principal components with eigenvalue gt 1 in
total 54 of the variance explained loadings
gt 0.250 explaining the components
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5. Results and discussion

• A. Empirical typology
• Group the owners (N 405) based on the scores of
  the PCA
• by cluster analysis (CA)

• 4 types of owners

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5. Results and discussion
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5. Results and discussion

• B. Owner and forestland characteristics
• relate forest type to characteristics via
  logistic regression (enter likelihood ratio)

• Characterisation of each owner type
• (Regression factors and odd ratios)

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5. Results and discussion

• B. Owner and forestland characteristics
• materialistic owners old, own conifer stands,
  spend no time
• satisfied recreational owners young, high
  knowledge
• dissatisfied recreational owners large
  property, a lot of time spent, a lot of wood
  sale
• profit-seeking owners low educated, no wood
  sales

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5. Results and discussion

• C. Use of carrots

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5. Results and discussion

• C. Use of carrots

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5. Results and discussion

• D. Acceptance of sticks
• agreement with restrictions on 7 management
  practices

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5. Results and discussion

• D. Acceptence of sermons
• information
• personal advice
• practical help in the forest
• organised cooperation with other owners in
  forest group

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6. Conclusions

• 1. Low use of subsidies specific owner group
  Only small interest by other owner types
• 2. Acceptance of regulation is low for new
  measures
• 3. High demand for information, personal advice,
  ... different preferences between the owner types

• First information, advice very specific related
  to owner types and measurements
• Later incentives

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