Motivations for using Conservation Easements as a Land Protection Mechanism: A Mixed Methods Analysis

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-87

  Farmer, James R ^a   Chancellor, Charles ^b   Fischer, Burnell C ^b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND RIGHTS; LANDOWNER; PRIVATE LAND; PUBLIC GOODS; RESEARCH WORK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551670523     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3375/043.031.0109     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Anderson, C.M., and J.R. King. 2004. Equilibrium behavior in the conservation easement game. Land Economics 80:355-374.
2. Bernard, R. 2006. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, 4th ed. AltaMira Press,Walnut Creek, Calif.
3. [CIPEC] Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change. 2003. A Survey of Forest and Land Management in Southern Indiana. CIPEC, Bloomington, Ind.
4. Creswell, J.W. 1998. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
5. Creswell, J.W., and V.L. Plano-Clark. 2007. Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
6. Davenport, M.A., and D.H. Anderson. 2005. Getting from sense of place to place-based management: an interpretive investigation of place meanings and perceptions of landscape change. Society and Natural Resources: an International Journal 18:625-641.
7. Elfring, C. 1989. Preserving land through local land trusts. BioScience 39:71-74.
8. Ernst, T., and G.W. Wallace. 2008. Characteristics, motivations, and management actions of landowners engaged in private land conservation in Larimer County Colorado. Natural Areas Journal 28:109-120.
9. Fairfax, S.K., L. Gwin, M.A. King, L. Raymond, and L.Watt. 2005. Buying Nature: the Limits of Land Acquisition as a Conservation Strategy. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
10. Farmer, J., and D. Knapp. 2008. Interpretation programs at a historic preservation site: a mixed methods study of long-term impact. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 2:340-361.
11. Gaddis, D.A. 1999.An analysis of conservation easements on private non-industrial forest land in North Carolina. Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
12. Greene, J.C., V.J. Caracelli, and W.F. Graham. 1989. Toward a conceptual framework for mixed method evaluation designs. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 11:255-274.
13. Gustanski, J.A., and R.H. Squires (eds.). 2000. Protecting the Land: Conservation Easements Past, Present, and Future. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
14. Jackson, M.T. 2003. 101 Trees of Indiana. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
15. Jacobson, M.G. 2002. Factors affecting private forest landowner interest in ecosystem management: linking spatial and survey data. Environmental Management 30:577-583.
16. Johnson, R.B., and A.J. Onwuegbuzie. 2004. Mixed methods research: a research paradigm whose time has come. Educational Researcher 33:14-26.
17. Kabii, T., and P. Horwitz. 2006. A review of landholder motivations and determinants for participation in conservation covenanting programmes. Environmental Conservation 33:11-20.
18. Keske, C., S. Gripne, and L. Sherrod. 2008. Economic development report. Extension Bulletin 234, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
19. Kline, J., R.J. Alig, and R.L. Johnson. 2000. Forest owner incentives to protect riparian habitat. Ecological Economics 33:29-43.
20. Kline, J., and D. Wichelns. 1994. Using referendum data to characterize public support for purchasing development rights to farmland. Land Economics 70:223-233.
21. Koontz, T.M. 2001. Money talks? But to whom? Financial versus nonmonetary motivations in land use decisions. Society and Natural Resources 14:51-65.
22. [LTA] Land Trust Alliance. 2005. National land trust census report. Available online http://www.lta.org/census/2005-report. pdf. Accessed 7 September 2007.
23. Lynch, L., and S.J. Lovell. 2003. Combining spatial and survey data to explain participation in agricultural land preservation programs. Land Economics 79:259-276.
24. Maynard, L.J., T.W. Kelsey, S.M. Lombeck, and J.C. Becker. 1998. Early experience with Pennsylvania's agricultural conservation easement program. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 53:106-112.
25. Merenlander, A.M., L. Huntsinger, G. Guthey, and S.K. Fairfax. 2004. Land trusts and conservation easements: who is preserving what for whom? Conservation Biology 18:65-75.
26. Miller, A.D., C.T. Bastian, D.M. McLeod, C.M. Keske, and D.L. Hoag. 2008. Determinants of agricultural landowners willingness to supply open space through conservation easements.American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting. Available online .
27. Moustakas, C. 1994. Phenomenological Research Methods. Sage, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
28. Richter, J.K. 2005. Using attitudes and motivations to segment the landowner audience: a typology of family forest owners in the Missouri Ozarks and description of management and information behaviors. Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri-Columbia.
29. Rilla, E. 2002. Landowners, while pleased with agricultural easements, suggest improvements. California Agriculture: January- February 21-25.
30. Rissman, A.R., L. Lozier, T. Comendant, P. Kareiva, J.M. Kiesecker, M.R. Shaw, and A.M. Merenlender. 2007. Conservation easements: biodiversity protection and private use. Conservation Biology 21:709-718.
31. Salamon, S., R. Farnsworth, D. Bullock, and R. Yusuf. 1997. Family factors affecting adoption of sustainable farming systems. Journal of Soil Water Conservation 52:265-271.
32. Salant, P.A., and D.A. Dillman. 1994. How to Conduct Your Own Survey. J. Wiley, New York.
33. Schroeder, H.W. 1996. Ecology of the heart: understanding how people experience natural environments. Pp. 13-27 in A.W. Ewert, ed., Natural Resource Management: the Human Dimension. Westview Press, Boulder, Colo.
34. Tyson, C.B., S.H. Broderick, and L.B. Snyder. 1998. A social marketing approach to landowner education. Journal of Forestry February: 34-40.
35. Van Manen,M. 1990. Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. Suny Press, Albany, N.Y.
36. Wright, J.B. 1993. Cultural geography and land trusts in Colorado and Utah. Geographical Review 83:269-279.