scholarly journals Nonindustrial Family Forest Landowners' Stated Willingness-to-Participate in Forest Cooperatives in Southern China

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifei Yang ◽  
Yali Wen ◽  
Francisco X. Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Forest Landowners ◽  
Family Forest ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Tenure Reform

Forest landowner cooperatives have emerged as a formal institution capable of fostering professional forest management. There are many reasons to motivate participation in forest cooperatives. For instance, cooperatives could ease nonindustrial family forest landowners (NIFFLs) access to financial assistance and enhance market entrance opportunities. In China, various forms of forest cooperatives supported by government agencies are developing rapidly in an effort to facilitate forest management at a large scale. However, the development of forest cooperatives is still in its early stages. An understanding of NIFFLs' attitudes towards the development of cooperatives is instrumental for crafting policies and organizational structures that motivate landowners' participation. Three hundred and ten NIFFLs from Fujian and Jiangxi provinces in Southern China were interviewed to elicit their attitudes and willingness-to-participate in forest cooperatives. Logistic regression was used to evaluate landowner, household, forest resource, and institutional factors associated with NIFFLs' stated decision to participate in a forest cooperative. Results show that NIFFLs' stated willingness-to-participate in forest cooperatives was associated with demographic characteristics like education, forest-related income, size of forestland, and attitudes toward land tenure reform and cooperatives. This paper outlines suggestions on how to further develop forest cooperatives in Southern China.

scholarly journals The Virtuous Cycle of Property

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Fabbri ◽  
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Dictator Game ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
Virtuous Cycle ◽  
Positive Effect

The article shows that formalizing private property rights has a positive effect on the propensity to respect the property of others. We study a recent large-scale land tenure reform in West Africa which was the first of its kind to be implemented as a randomized control-trial. Results of a modified dictator game show that the formalization of private property rights reduced an individual's willingness to take from others' endowment. We used additional experimental measures and post-experimental survey data to rule out alternative explanations for the observed behavior that do not imply a change in preferences.

Land-Tenure Reform in Kenya: the Limits of Law

1979 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon F. R. Coldham
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Cash Crops ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
Land Register

Most Africans in Kenya have always lived and worked on the land, and until fairly recently their land-tenure arrangements have been governed by customary law. Colonial administrators were divided about the desirability of granting individual titles to African farmers, and concentrated their efforts on persuading them to plant cash-crops, to fight soil erosion and, where necessary, to consolidate their holdings. It was only in the mid-1950s, when large-scale compulsory land consolidation schemes were initiated in the Kikuyu Land Unit, that serious thought was given to the nature of the title which the owner of a consolidated holding would acquire.1 The East Africa Royal Commission advocated the adjudication and registration of individual titles in suitable areas,2 and eventually a working party was appointed to consider what legislation would be necessary to implement this recommendation. As a result of its report,3 a system of registration of title based on the English model was introduced. Once the processes of adjudicacation and consolidation have been completed, the title of the owner is registered and, where appropriate, any interests not amounting to ownership are also entered on the Land Register. The land thereupon ceases to be subject to customary law,4 and is governed instead by the complete code of substantive law – based broadly on English law – which is contained today in the Registered Land Act, 1963.

scholarly journals Association of the Yips and Musculoskeletal Problems in Highly Skilled Golfers: A Large Scale Epidemiological Study in Japan

Sports ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Yasufumi Gon ◽  
Daijiro Kabata ◽  
Sadahito Kawamura ◽  
Masahito Mihara ◽  
Ayumi Shintani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Musculoskeletal Problems ◽  
Large Scale Epidemiological Study ◽  
Motor Disturbances

The yips are a set of conditions associated with intermittent motor disturbances that affect precision movement, especially in sports. Specifically, skilled golfers suffer from the yips, although its clinical characteristics and pathophysiology have not been well-studied. We surveyed skilled golfers to characterize their yips-related symptoms, to explore potential confounding factors associated with the yips. Golfers’ demographic information, golfing-career-related history, musculoskeletal status and manifestations of the yips are surveyed. Among the 1576 questionnaires distributed, 1457 (92%) responses were received, of which 39% of golfers had experienced the yips. The median age and golfing careers were 48 and 28 years, respectively. Golfers who had experienced the yips were older and had longer golfing careers and more frequent musculoskeletal problems than those without experience of the yips. The multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that a longer golfing career and musculoskeletal problems were independent factors associated with yips experience. More severe musculoskeletal problems were associated with higher odds of experiencing the yips. A positive association between the yips and musculoskeletal problems was also observed. The yips have similar characteristics to task-specific movement disorders, with a detrimental effect caused by excessive repetition of a routine task. These findings support the notion that the yips are a type of task-specific dystonia.

scholarly journals Factors associated with willingness to participate in a pharmacologic addiction treatment clinical trial among people who use drugs

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 368-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha Uhlmann ◽  
Michael John Milloy ◽  
Keith Ahamad ◽  
Paul Nguyen ◽  
Thomas Kerr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
People Who Use Drugs ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Factors Associated

Mineral Exploration using CSAMT data: Application to Longmen region metallogenic belt, Guangdong Province, China

Geophysics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. B111-B119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangyun Hu ◽  
Ronghua Peng ◽  
Guiju Wu ◽  
Weiping Wang ◽  
Guangpu Huo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Data Application ◽  
Metallogenic Belt ◽  
Fe Content ◽  
Geophysical Surveys ◽  
Occam’S Inversion ◽  
Integrated Interpretation

A controlled-source audio-frequency magnetotelluric (CSAMT) survey has been carried out to investigate potential iron (Fe) and polymetallic (Pb-Zn-Cu) deposits in Longmen region, which is one of the main metallogenic belts in southern China. Conducting geophysical surveys in this area is quite difficult due to mountainous terrain, dense forest, and thick vegetation cover. A total of 560 CSAMT soundings were recorded along twelve surveying lines. Two-dimensional Occam’s inversion scheme was used to interpret these CSAMT data. The resulting electric resistivity models showed that three large-scale highly conductive bodies exist within the surveying area. By integrated interpretation combined with available geologic, geophysical, and geochemical data in this area, three prospective mineral deposits were demarcated. Based on the CSAMT results, a borehole penetrating approximately 250-m depth was drilled at the location of 470 m to the northwest end of line 06, defined with a massive pyrite from the depth of 52–235 m with 7%–16% Fe content, as well as locally high-grade Pb-Zn- and Ag-Ti-bearing ores.

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