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The role of economic incentives and social norms in forest resource management
Author(s) -
Satake Akiko
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
ecological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1440-1703
pISSN - 0912-3814
DOI - 10.1007/s11284-006-0077-x
Subject(s) - incentive , deforestation (computer science) , natural resource economics , term (time) , work (physics) , business , ecosystem services , forest management , social benefits , public economics , environmental resource management , ecosystem , economics , ecology , microeconomics , agroforestry , environmental science , mechanical engineering , physics , materials science , quantum mechanics , tailings , computer science , metallurgy , engineering , biology , programming language
Forests are experiencing increasing pressure from human activities, which is leading to rapid deforestation and loss of ecosystem services. Although deforestation occurs for a wide range of reasons, one important reason is that landowners lack a long‐term management view. I suggest that both economic incentives and social norms will work differently to reduce landowners’ motivation to deforest and to help landowners identify the long‐term benefits that will be obtained by sacrificing short‐term gain.