Segmenting southern nonindustrial private forest landowners on the basis of their management objectives and motivations for wood-based bioenergy

Southern Journal of Applied Forestry

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-92

  Joshi, Omkar ^b   Mehmood, Sayeed R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonindustrial private forest landowners; Two step clustering

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; WOOD; WOOD FUELS;

EDUCATIONAL STRATEGY; MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVES; NON-INDUSTRIAL PRIVATE FOREST LANDOWNERS; OUTREACH ACTIVITY; OUTREACH PROGRAMS; TWO-STEP CLUSTER ANALYSIS; TWO-STEP CLUSTERING;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; FLORIDA; FORESTRY; FUELS; MOTIVATION; VIRGINIA; WOOD;

EID: 79955598828     PISSN: 01484419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sjaf/35.2.87     Document Type: Article

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