On-Site Experience Effect on Stakeholders’ Preferences of Forest Management

Xiaoshu Li and G. Andrew Stainback
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Xiaoshu Li: School of Maritime Economics and Management, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China
G. Andrew Stainback: The Everglades Foundation, Palmetto Bay, FL 33157, USA

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 19, 1-16

Abstract: An understanding of how public preferences vary among different stakeholders toward forest management policies would be helpful in the forest policy design and administration process. In this study, we investigate the preferences toward forest management policies of three stakeholder groups-woodlot owners, environmentalists, and the general public. We used a stated-preference survey to elicit information about stakeholder preferences for forest management practices at Holt Research Forest in Maine. The survey was administered to each group both before and after an on-site experience at the forest. We specifically investigated how information and experience acquired through the on-site experience would influence the preferences of each group. We also conducted a latent class analysis to further explore the preference heterogeneity among survey participants. The results show differences in preferences for forest management policies between stakeholders with the preferences of woodlot owners differing substantially from environmentalists and the general public both before and after the on-site experience. The on-site experience did not have a substantial impact on woodlot owners. In contrast, it increased the consistency of choice decisions among environmentalists and the public.

Keywords: on-site experience; forest management; stakeholders; choice experiment; latent class analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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