Regional Variations of Resident and Absentee Forest Owners in Forest Management Activity

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  • HAGA Daichi
    Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan
  • KATANO Yohei
    School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan

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  • 在村者・不在村者の森林管理行動の地域性
  • 在村者・不在村者の森林管理行動の地域性 : 伝統林業地と新興林業地の比較分析
  • ザイムラシャ ・ フザイムラシャ ノ シンリン カンリ コウドウ ノ チイキセイ : デントウ リンギョウチ ト シンコウ リンギョウチ ノ ヒカク ブンセキ
  • A Comparative Analysis of a Town with a Long History of Forestry and One with Burgeoning Forestry
  • 伝統林業地と新興林業地の比較分析

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Abstract

This study empirically explores the factors related to forest management behavior of non-industrial private forest owners (NIPFs), and analyzes the influence of the regional history of forestry on these factors. We conducted a mail survey of residents and absentee NIPFs from two towns in the Tottori Prefecture of Japan-Chizu, which has a long history of forestry, and Nichinan, where forestry has thrived since the 1950s. We developed four logistic models from four different samples (Chizu or Nichinan, resident or absentee). In addition, we reviewed the literature on the forestry of each town. The results indicate that forest size and recognition of forest area influenced forest management in all four models. Furthermore, legal registration was associated with forest management in three models, except in the Nichinan absentee model. Forest size had a greater impact on absentee owners than on resident owners, and in Chizu than in Nichinan. The Nichinan absentee model had a different structure. Chizu has a long history of forestry; therefore, the difference between residents and absentees can be minor. In Nichinan, forestry thrived after the 1950s, and commercial thinning has burgeoned since the 2000s. This indicates that local history can influence forest management behavior.

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