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BCS Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 3, 2018 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 3, 2018 |
| Award Number: | 1832452 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Tom Evans
tevans@nsf.gov (703)292-4891 BCS Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci SBE Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2018 |
| End Date: | February 28, 2022 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $225,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $225,000.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
216 MONTANA HALL BOZEMAN MT US 59717 (406)994-2381 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
309 Montana Hall Bozeman MT US 59717-2470 |
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Geography and Spatial Sciences, EPSCoR Co-Funding |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.075 |
ABSTRACT
This project will analyze patterns of private land ownership in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Great Plains regions to enhance understanding of how land acquisition and management by individuals with high-net worth affects natural resource management in rural, high-amenity regions of the western U.S. and other locales. The researchers will quantify rates and volumes of land ownership change and will analyze landowner decision making about resource management and conservation at the property and landscape scales. Project findings will assist in the development of an overarching model of the lifecycle of property ownership by individuals with high net worth. Special foci of the project are the processes through which land-ownership change influences the success of cooperative wildlife management efforts. By addressing knowledge gaps regarding emerging property-ownership regimes in rural landscapes, this research will help address issues related to the different perspectives of high net-worth, often-absent landowners and longer-term residents of high-amenity regions. Through ongoing engagement with local and regional stakeholders in the design, execution, and dissemination stages of the project, the investigators will provide new information and insights that can address local issues and increase public scientific literacy and public engagement with science in rural America.
Despite increases in the number of individuals with high net worth as proprietors of natural resources worldwide, few scholars have examined the trajectories of these property ownership trends and their implications for resource-management institutions that act as mediators in social-ecological systems. The investigators will quantify rates and patterns of ownership change through analyses of parcel and property sales data and qualitative key informant data. They will employ ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews to characterize landowner resource-management decisions with a focus on key social and ecological influences, and they will analyze cooperative elk-management institutions using social network and institutional history approaches. The investigators will use a recently developed property-landscape life course framework that focuses attention on spatial and temporal dynamics of the relationships linking private landowners, the resources they manage, and local institutions of resource management.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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This research has provided concepts, techniques and descriptive statistics to help explain how ultra-high net worth individuals are changing rural land markets and landscapes. The study examined rural land tenure in Montana, USAcombining de novo data with previous work conducted by members of the research team in the 1990s, to produce peer-reviewed publications documenting key land tenure issues including patterns of concentration, turnover, land management styles, and conflicts in wildlife management. The geographical focus of the work was critical conservation landscapes, including the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Northern Great Plains. Concerned stakeholders in rural policy-making, conservation, wildlife management, economic and community development can use this work to anticipate the pace of change in rural land tenure and to identify the priorities and preoccupations of the super rich regarding land use, investments and local employment. Future scholarship will benefit from this project’s explorations of emergent issues including the emotional labor required of wildlife managers working in landscapes dominated by high net worth owners; the “hyper-valuation frontier”; and the complexities of leveraging extreme wealth to generate environmental and social goods (including via holistic and regenerative agriculture principles). The project also helped to improve publicly-available techniques for making sense of legal land ownership records (i.e., the cadastral record). Students affiliated with the project have gone on to leadership positions in the conservation and geoscience workforces, including developing new scholarship on links between rural mental health and wildlife management challenges initially uncovered in this study. Meanwhile, findings from the project have featured in news media reports, spurring new policy discussions and public dialogue in Montana, where the case study was pursued.
Last Modified: 05/04/2023
Modified by: Julia H Haggerty
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