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Spatial assessment of a voluntary forest conservation programme in North Carolina.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cassingham, Kirsten Michaele Sills, Erin O. Pattanayak, S. K. Mansfield, Carol Teeter, Lawrence D. Cashore, Benjamin William Zhang, Da-Ming |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | North Carolina’s Natural Heritage Program (NHP) identifies priority areas for biodiversity conservation and encourages landholders to participate in biodiversity conservation. While there are many other programmes promoting stewardship and conservation of forests and other natural resources, this chapter focuses on participation in the two voluntary programmes offered by the NHP. The chapter also focuses on private lands, which present a greater challenge for biodiversity conservation than public lands. Understanding how private landholders respond to conservation policies is important because they own a significant proportion of forest and other natural areas in North Carolina. Voluntary programmes are increasingly important in US environmental policy, and this study contributes to the literature by evaluating their effectiveness in the private land conservation arena. The North Carolina NHP is part of the Division of Parks and Recreation within the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The NHP inventories, catalogues and facilitates protection of the most rare and the most outstanding elements of natural diversity. The elements include plants and animal species that are rare and/or natural communities that are so significant that they merit special consideration. Based on these elements and the feasibility of protection, the NHP has designated approximately 7% of the state as significant areas. The NHP’s purpose in designating areas is to allow the public to weigh the significance of various sites and evaluate the likelihood and nature of ecological impacts; to encourage informed evaluations of the trade-offs between biodiversity and development; and to establish priorities for protection of the state’s most significant natural areas (North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, 2000). Landowners can participate in the NHP by registering or designating their land under the programme (considered ‘protection’). This chapter considers whether forested lands and lands designated as relatively more important by the NHP are more likely to be protected. Next, this chapter seeks to identify factors correlated with protection, using spatial and logistic regression analysis. The potential determinants of protection are derived from a GIS database, including physical, biological, socio-economic and historical features (Western North Carolina Data System, 2000). This analysis builds on the findings of Mansfield et al. (2000) about protection activities (including registration with NHP) in all significant natural heritage areas (including public and private) in the state. We focus in particular on registration and dedication of natural heritage areas by private landowners in western North Carolina. Our analysis suggests how the state or a non-profit agency could encourage landowners to |
| Starting Page | 129 |
| Ending Page | 141 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1079/9780851995991.0129 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.auburn.edu/academic/forestry_wildlife/forest_policy_ctr/documents/booktoc/0851995993Ch13.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851995991.0129 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
