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Journal of Environmental Management | 2014

The physical, economic and policy drivers of land conversion to forestry in Ireland

Vincent Upton; Cathal O'Donoghue; Mary Ryan

Land use change is fundamentally a product of the interaction of physical land characteristics, economic considerations and agricultural and environmental policies. Researchers are increasingly combining physical and socio-economic spatial data to investigate the drivers of land-use change in relation to policy and economic developments. Focusing on Ireland, this study develops a panel data set of annual afforestation over 2811 small-area boundaries between 1993 and 2007 from vector and raster data sources. Soil type and other physical characteristics are combined with the net returns of converting agricultural land to forestry, based on the micro-simulation of individual farm incomes, to investigate land conversion. A spatial econometric approach is adopted to model the data and a range of physical, economic and policy factors are identified as having a significant effect on afforestation rates. In addition to the financial returns, the availability and quality of land and the implementation of environmental protection policies are identified as important factors in land conversion. The implications of these factors for the goal of forest expansion are discussed in relation to conflicting current and future land use policies.


Society & Natural Resources | 2015

Are Forest Attitudes Shaped by the Extent and Characteristics of Forests in the Local Landscape

Vincent Upton; Áine Ní Dhubháin; Craig Bullock

Forest policy is increasingly accounting for public attitudes and preferences. However, attitudes vary across the population and are linked to the characteristics of individuals and their relationship to forests. This study examines whether the extent, ownership, and composition of forests in respondents’ localities influence their expressed attitudes and rankings of forest outputs from a household survey. Forest cover in a 5-km buffer surrounding respondents was identified using a geographic information system (GIS) and the effects of forest cover and other key respondent variables were tested using ordered logit models. The results suggest that forest cover does influence attitudes and that the nature of the effects differs based on composition and ownership. A division in attitudes was also identified between members of farming households and urban areas. In addition to describing the potential formation of attitudes, the results highlight the trade-off between commercial and noncommercial management that may be required to improve attitudes toward forestry.


Forest Policy and Economics | 2012

Preferences and values for afforestation: The effects of location and respondent understanding on forest attributes in a labelled choice experiment

Vincent Upton; Áine Ní Dhubháin; Craig Bullock


Forest Policy and Economics | 2014

Factors influencing Irish farmers' afforestation intention

Stefanie Duesberg; Vincent Upton; Deirdre O'Connor; Áine Ní Dhubháin


Applied Geography | 2015

Combining conventional and volunteered geographic information to identify and model forest recreational resources

Vincent Upton; Mary Ryan; Cathal O'Donoghue; Áine Ní Dhubháin


Irish Forestry | 2013

The potential economic returns of converting agricultural land to forestry: An analysis of system and soil effects from 1955 to 2009.

Vincent Upton; Mary Ryan; Niall Farrelly; Cathal O’Donoghue


Irish Forestry | 2014

The role of subsidy payments in the uptake of forestry by the typical cattle farmer in Ireland from 1984 to 2012.

Mary Ryan; Michele McCormack; Cathal O’Donoghue; Vincent Upton


Irish Forestry | 2012

The valuation of non-market forest benefits in Ireland: A review.

Vincent Upton; Áine Ní Dhubháin; Craig Bullock


88th Annual Conference, April 9-11, 2014, AgroParisTech, Paris, France | 2014

A spatially explicit national demand model for forest recreation in Ireland

Vincent Upton; Mary Ryan; Cathal O’Donoghue


87th Annual Conference, April 8-10, 2013, Warwick University, Coventry, UK | 2013

Modelling Inter-temporal Differential Returns to Agricultural and Forestry Land Use using the Forest Investment and Valuation Estimator (FIVE)

Mary Ryan; Cathal O'Donoghue; Vincent Upton; Henry Phillips; Niall Farrelly

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Craig Bullock

University College Dublin

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Eoin Grealis

National University of Ireland

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