Journal article
Supporting Cooperative Forest Management among Small-Acreage Lifestyle Landowners in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Society & Natural Resources, Vol.26(7), pp.745-761
2013
Abstract
Effective landscape-level biodiversity conservation requires cooperative forest management across public and private-tenure boundaries. This study explores the potential for cooperative cross-boundary forest management among small-acreage lifestyle landholders in southeast Queensland using 17 in-depth qualitative case-study analyses. Landholders typically possessed mutual objectives concerning forest management, a sense of neighborly stewardship, and positive predispositions toward cooperative cross-boundary forest management. However, capacity, institutional, and neighbor-related barriers were limiting landholder interest and involvement. We find that peer-mentoring networks have a critical role to play in promoting and delivering programs that support cross-boundary forest management. Government should ideally play a background "out-of-sight" facilitator role. We also find the capacity for urbanizing rural landscapes to retain their natural values can be greatly enhanced by facilitating small-acreage landholder cooperation to maintain and restore their contiguous forests, mitigate wildfire hazards, and revegetate paddocks to buffer existing forests or create new fire-retardant forests. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Details
- Title
- Supporting Cooperative Forest Management among Small-Acreage Lifestyle Landowners in Southeast Queensland, Australia
- Authors
- John Meadows (Author) - University of QueenslandJohn L Herbohn (Author) - University of QueenslandN Emtage (Author) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Society & Natural Resources, Vol.26(7), pp.745-761
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc.
- Date published
- 2013
- DOI
- 10.1080/08941920.2012.719586
- ISSN
- 0894-1920
- Organisation Unit
- Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448940702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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