What influences European private forest owners' affinity for subsidies?
Authors
Quiroga Gómez, Sonia; Suárez Gálvez, Cristina Isabel; Ficko , Andrej; Feliciano , Diana; Bouriaud , Laura; [et al.]Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/60253DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2018.08.008
ISSN: 1389-9341
Date
2019Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de EconomíaBibliographic citation
Forest Policy and Economics, 2019, v. 99, p. 136-144
Keywords
Subsidies
European conservation policy
Forest management
Conceptualisation
Private forest owners
Social-ecological restoration
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
This study analyses the linkages between private forest owners? perceptions of forest management, and their affinity for subsidies, in a range of European countries. Society increasingly requires the provision of ecosystem services from forests, but the willingness of forest owners to redirect management goals from wood production to the provision of public goods is crucial for sustaining ecosystem services. EU incentives in the forestry sector are still mainly oriented towards an anthropocentric vision of forest management. Forest owners and managers are diverse, and although many efforts have been made to understand the role of forest subsidies in private forest management, it is still necessary to analyse the different perspectives on forest subsidies with a regional comparative approach. This paper explores European private forest owners? affinity for subsidies ? through survey data at European level?and estimates an ordered probit model to (i) analyse how private forest owners in Europe respond to subsidies in forestry, including regional differences in terms of affinity for subsidies, (ii) characterise the factors that influence these responses and (iii) discuss lessons learned related to forest owners' attitudes on subsidies and the implications for introducing similar kind of incentives such as payments for ecosystem services. Simulations were conducted to examine the potential effects of changes in property fragmentation or the time allotted to forest activities. Forest owners with an utilitarian view of forest management, bigger forest holdings, full or part-time farmers and forest owners from East Europe are most in favour of forest subsidies. Property fragmentation and absenteeism decreases affinity for subsidies
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