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FOKUS - Forest owners in urban areas Analysis of attitudes and values (Private forest owners in urban space)
Project
Project code: ST376
Contract period: 15.05.2022
- 14.10.2022
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: private forest owners, non-agricultural forest owners, non-industrial private-forest owners, change in agricultural structures, social change
In the past three decades, due to structural change in agriculture and inheritance of forest property as well as the accompanying change in the orientation and values of forest owners, the concept of the "urban forest owner" has become increasingly important in private forest research to describe a shift in private forest management (Härdter 2004; Hogl et al. 2005; Krause 2010; Rademacher and Schaffner 2000; Schraml 2006; Schraml and Härdter 2002; Volz and Schraml 2003). The terminology refers to a heterogenization of the formerly rural-traditional private forest owners in regard to the social process of urbanization and thus the change of lifestyles. The urban forest owner does not stand in sharp contrast to peasantry and primary production of the forest, as these studies show, since there is no homogeneous group of urban forest owners, who rather have diverse motives and attitudes (Feil et al. 2018). Forest owners increasingly live in urban areas and have increasingly urban lifestyles and orientations. About 60% of non-farm forest owners already showed an urban orientation in 2003 (Bittner and Härdter 2003). It is suggested that by 2030, about 60% of forest owners, who own 60% of private forest land, will live in cities (Suda et al. 2013). Private forests, following climate change projections, are facing a transformation. This transformation affects the forest as a whole, regardless of whether it is structured in micro-parcels or owned by an urban-oriented forest owner. However, the current forest policy instruments for structural improvement and forest conversion are particularly ineffective in the group of 'urban' forest owners (Volz and Schraml et. al 2002), and this situation has not changed much in the past 20 years. In order to provide targeted support for the necessary forest conversion through government measures and assistance, it is necessary to know urban forest owners in terms of their attitudes and values. With the help of focus group discussions, the attitudes and values of urban and rural forest owners will be recorded in three large cities and one rural municipality.
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
- Agricultural Policy
- Agricultural Sociology
- Communication Sciences
- Resource management
- Climate Change
