Forest Biological Disaster Control Behaviors of Forest Farmers and Their Spatial Heterogeneity in China
department or school: Forestry, Faculty of
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identifier citation: Forests 15 (6): 970 (2024)
creator: Cai, Qi
creator: Sun, Bowen
creator: Zhang, Xufeng
creator: Bo, Wenjing
creator: Wang, Guangyu
creator: Zhou, Zefeng
issued: 2024-06-28T15:20:30Z
issued: 2024-05-31
description: With more and more loss caused by forest biological disasters (FBDs) in China, forest farmers, as one of the most important stakeholders, are participating in the control. In this study, the ordinary least squares model, simultaneous equation model, and propensity score matching method were used with the data from 818 surveys conducted in the typical FBD outbreak provinces, to reveal the FBD control behaviors of forest farmers and their differences between western and eastern regions of China. The results indicated the following. (1) Household factors: forest farmers could timely take control measures. An increase of 1 ha in the area of occurrence would increase the control measures by 3.26 ha. However, the control measures can only reduce 50% of the economic loss caused by FBDs and cannot effectively control the spread trend of FBDs. There are issues, including an insufficient and old labor force, insufficient technology support, and low consciousness of ecology protection. (2) External factors: forest farmers would increase control when the temperature rises, and reduce control when rainfall increases. After village committees unify organizing the control, their participation enthusiasm would increase, which would have a substitution relationship with the household investment. (3) Regional difference: the eastern region of China has higher figures than the western in terms of outbreak area, economic losses, control measures, and pesticide cost. If the western forest farmers have the control funds as the eastern forest farmers have, and the eastern forest farmers have the control intensity as the western forest farmers have, the overall FBD control effect would be better.
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note: Citation: Cai, Q.; Sun, B.; Zhang, X.;Bo, W.; Wang, G.; Zhou, Z. ForestBiological Disaster Control Behaviorsof Forest Farmers and Their SpatialHeterogeneity in China. Forests 2024,15, 970. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15060970Received: 27 March 2024Revised: 26 May 2024Accepted: 30 May 2024Published: 31 May 2024Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).ArticleForest Biological Disaster Control Behaviors of Forest Farmersand Their Spatial Heterogeneity in ChinaQi Cai 1 , Bowen Sun 2, Xufeng Zhang 3,*, Wenjing Bo 1, Guangyu Wang 4 and Zefeng Zhou 5,*1 Institute of Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China;caiqilinda1010@126.com (Q.C.); bowenjing@caf.ac.cn (W.B.)2 School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; bowensun@hotmail.com3 School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China4 Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada;guangyu.wang@ubc.ca5 Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China* Correspondence: xufengzhang@bjut.edu.cn (X.Z.); zefengzhou2022@126.com (Z.Z.)Abstract: With more and more loss caused by forest biological disasters (FBDs) in China, forestfarmers, as one of the most important stakeholders, are participating in the control. In this study,the ordinary least squares model, simultaneous equation model, and propensity score matchingmethod were used with the data from 818 surveys conducted in the typical FBD outbreak provinces,to reveal the FBD control behaviors of forest farmers and their differences between western andeastern regions of China. The results indicated the following. (1) Household factors: forest farmerscould timely take c…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0444049
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/f15060970
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: forest biological disasters (forest diseases, pests, rodent or hare infestations, and harmful plants)
subject: control behaviors
subject: forest farmers
subject: spatial heterogeneity
subject: propensity score matching
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88536