Vincent Upton
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Journal of Environmental Management | 2014
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
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
Vincent Upton; Áine Ní Dhubháin; Craig Bullock
Forest Policy and Economics | 2014
Stefanie Duesberg; Vincent Upton; Deirdre O'Connor; Áine Ní Dhubháin
Applied Geography | 2015
Vincent Upton; Mary Ryan; Cathal O'Donoghue; Áine Ní Dhubháin
Irish Forestry | 2013
Vincent Upton; Mary Ryan; Niall Farrelly; Cathal O’Donoghue
Irish Forestry | 2014
Mary Ryan; Michele McCormack; Cathal O’Donoghue; Vincent Upton
Irish Forestry | 2012
Vincent Upton; Áine Ní Dhubháin; Craig Bullock
88th Annual Conference, April 9-11, 2014, AgroParisTech, Paris, France | 2014
Vincent Upton; Mary Ryan; Cathal O’Donoghue
87th Annual Conference, April 8-10, 2013, Warwick University, Coventry, UK | 2013
Mary Ryan; Cathal O'Donoghue; Vincent Upton; Henry Phillips; Niall Farrelly