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| Farmer, James R.; Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies, Indiana University; School of Public Health, Indiana University; Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University ; jafarmer@indiana.edu; Brenner, Jacob C.; Ithaca College; jbrenner@ithaca.edu; Drescher, Michael; School of Planning, University of Waterloo; Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University; mdresche@uwaterloo.ca; Dickinson, Stephanie L; Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Indiana University; School of Public Health, Indiana University; sd3@indiana.edu; Knackmuhs, Eric G.; Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies, Indiana University; School of Public Health, Indiana University; Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University; eknackmu@indiana.edu. |
| As natural areas, agricultural lands, and open spaces continue to be developed at unprecedented rates, it is important for land conservation professionals to understand the individuals who might play a role in permanently protecting these lands and their ecological services. Many factors have been shown to influence land protection decisions among private owners, including land-use activities, demographic characteristics, and environmental intention and behavior. With the hypothesis that individuals already involved in land conservation programs would be candidates for permanent protection, we set out to model conservation easement decisions within a group of participants in southern Indiana’s Classified Forest and Wildlands Program (ICFWP).... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Conservation easements; Functional leisure; Indiana Classified Forest and Wildlands; Land trusts; Land use; Private land conservation. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Ruseva, Tatyana B.; Appalachian State University; rusevatb@appstate.edu; Farmer, James R.; Indiana University; jafarmer@indiana.edu; Chancellor, Charles; Clemson University; hchance@clemson.edu. |
| As an important component in collaborative natural resource management and nonprofit governance, social capital is expected to be related to variations in the performance of land trusts. Land trusts are charitable organizations that work to conserve private land locally, regionally, or nationally. The purpose of this paper is to identify the level of structural and cognitive social capital among local land trusts, and how these two types of social capital relate to the perceived success of land trusts. The analysis integrates data for land trusts operating in the U.S. south-central Appalachian region, which includes western North Carolina, southwest Virginia, and east Tennessee. We use factor analysis to elicit different dimensions of cognitive social... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Land conservation; Land trusts; Networks; Organizational success; Social capital. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Albers, Heidi J.; Ando, Amy Whritenour. |
| Few economic analyses examine land trusts, their decisions, and the land-trust "industry," despite their growing importance. For example, statistics on the wide variation in the number of trusts in different regions of the United States raise questions about whether such variation makes economic sense. This paper builds a model to identify the optimal number of private conservation agents. The model depicts two competing forces: regional spatial externalities in conservation benefits that increase the efficiency of having fewer agents and organizational costs, and fund-raising specialization, which increases the efficiency of having more agents. Using state-level variables, we perform a count-data analysis of the number of trusts conserving land in each... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land trusts; Public goods; Organizational size; Conservation benefits; U.S. land conservation; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10873 |
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