Private forest owners' sense of landownership

motives, influential factors and landscape context

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

Abstract

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 liter%ature 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 be%tween the self and forest. Physical work in the forest and tending young forests increase psychological land%ownership. 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

Keywords

psihološko lastništvo;navezanost na prostor;lastništvo zemljišč;relacijske vrednosti;modeliranje strukturnih enačb;prostorska avtokorelacija;psychological ownership;place attachment;landowners;relational values;structural equation modeling;spatial autocorrelation;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2021
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL BF - Biotechnical Faculty
UDC:	630*92
COBISS:	81418243
ISSN:	0169-2046
Views:	201
Downloads:	82
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	psihološko lastništvo;navezanost na prostor;lastništvo zemljišč;relacijske vrednosti;modeliranje strukturnih enačb;prostorska avtokorelacija;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	12 str.
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ215
Issue:	ǂarticle ǂ104500
Chronology:	2021
DOI:	10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104200
ID:	13715176