Engaging absentee landholders in ecosystem service delivery in south-eastern Australia

Hermann Kam, Graciela Metternicht, Alex Baumber and Rebecca Cross

Ecosystem Services, 2019, vol. 39, issue C

Abstract: As absentee landownership continues to increase in many regions of Oceania and the world, there is a growing need to better understand the behaviours and values of this landholder group. The increase in absentee landholdership can impact the provision of ecosystem services, as well as alter the rural socio-cultural fabric; the values, beliefs, knowledge types and social connections amongst landholders in rural communities. Consequently, this presents challenges to natural resource management (NRM) practitioners seeking to implement better resource management strategies across property boundaries. This case study research on the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, aims to better understand the characteristics of absentee landholders, including their motivations for holding land, their existing levels of knowledge concerning land management practices, and their views and preferences for cross-property collaborations and, in turn, explore the role they could have in the delivery of ecosystem services.

Keywords: Absentee Landholder; Behaviours; Amenity absenteeism; Recreation; Lifestylers; Cross- property collaborations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100988

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