Centrality of the ranching lifestyle and attitudes toward a voluntary incentive program to protect endangered species

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-152

  Sorice, Michael G ^a   Conner, J Richard ^b   Kreuter, Urs P ^b   Wilkins, R Neal ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; cost share programs; financial dependence; private lands; rootedness; self identity; sense of place; structural equation modeling; working lands

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDOWNER; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PRIVATE LAND; RANCHING; SONGBIRD;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

PASSERI;

EID: 84858992835     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-10-00144.1     Document Type: Article

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