Private forest owners' sense of landownership : motives, influential factors and landscape context

Andabaka, Marijana (avtor), Teslak, Krunoslav (avtor), Ficko, Andrej (avtor)

Legal ownership of land defines the formal relationship between a landowner and land. Besides legal ownership, there is also psychological ownership which landowners can develop toward land. Despite the abundant literature on the relationships between landowners and land, it remains unclear under which circumstances a sense of ownership over land occurs and what impacts individual feelings may have on landscape dynamics if aggregated or scaled up. Building upon the psychological ownership theory, we interviewed 442 private forest owners in Croatia about the benefits of landownership. By using a Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (MIMIC) structural equation model and local spatial autocorrelation statistics, we 1) analyzed whether landownership benefits correlate to three motives for psychological ownership, i.e. having a place, efficacy and effectance, and self-identity; 2) analyzed the factors stimulating the motives; and 3) located the areas of spatial concentration of psychological landownership (i.e. hotspots/coldspots). Landownership benefits showed a strong association with the corresponding motives indicating that private forest owners experience landownership as a connection between the self and forest. Physical work in the forest and tending young forests increase psychological landownership. The land tenure system and duration of ownership plays no role. The biggest hotspot appeared in the most developed area, possibly preventing land transfer. Coldspots, in contrast, emerged across the country, pointing to land which could potentially change ownership after the land market regulation expires in 2023. The findings expand the understanding of land possession beyond the dis(investment) paradigm and help predict hotspots of land transfers at local to regional scales.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: psychological ownership, place attachment, landowners, relational values, structural equation modeling, spatial autocorrelation
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: BF - Biotehniška fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2021
• Št. strani: 12 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 215, art. 104200
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-132252
• UDK: 630*92
• ISSN pri članku: 0169-2046
• DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104200
• COBISS.SI-ID: 81418243
• Datum objave v RUL: 19.10.2021

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Landscape and urban planning
• Skrajšan naslov: Landsc. urban plan.
• Založnik: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0169-2046
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5174023

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Najbolj omejujoča licenca Creative Commons. Uporabniki lahko prenesejo in delijo delo v nekomercialne namene in ga ne smejo uporabiti za nobene druge namene.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: psihološko lastništvo, navezanost na prostor, lastništvo zemljišč, relacijske vrednosti, modeliranje strukturnih enačb, prostorska avtokorelacija

Projekti

• Financer: HRZZ - Croatian Science Foundation
• Številka projekta: IP-2018-01-8820

• Financer: ARRS - Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P4-0059
• Naslov: Gozd, gozdarstvo in obnovljivi gozdni viri