Multi-scale Analysis of Collaborative National Forest Planning Contexts in the Rural US Mountain West |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Thomas?W?CrawfordEmail author Randall?K?Wilson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, East Carolina University, , USA;(2) Department of Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College, , USA |
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Abstract: | This research analyzes regional and sub-regional contexts of the United States Mountain West where community-based forms of national forest planning are emerging to ameliorate conflict related to New West rural transformations characterized by high population growth and increasing service and amenity-based economies. A county-level typology is developed using cluster techniques applied to demographic, economic, and environmental indicators and a novel measure of spatial accessibility to forest lands. Results identify three types of contexts with differential characterestics relevant to community-based forest planning. A local scale analysis compares characteristics for counties surrounding a national forest with an ongoing community-based collaboration and its participant characteristics. Results show some key differences between participants and their ambient contexts as well as local-scale contextual heterogeneity. A framework for incorporating multi-scale data and analyses to address current research needs for the emergent topic of community-based collaboration is presented.Please address correspondence to Thomas W. Crawford, Department of Geography, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA; crawfordt@mail.ecu.edu |
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Keywords: | national forest planning community-based collaboration rural transformation |
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