Succinct Science | Podcast Episode 5: Land Management

Did you know that most of the land in the United States is privately owned? Approximately 60% of it, in fact. Therefore, how this land is managed has vast implications for the overall health of our environment-including our air and water. But, who makes a majority of those decisions and how do they go about doing it?
In this episode, Dr. Robyn Wilson and Dr. Rebecca Epanchin-Niell discuss their teams’ efforts to model private land management decision making using theories from economics, sociology, and psychology. The goal is that with a greater understanding of the decision-making processes of landowners, we can better design programs, incentives, and policies that benefit all.
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Special thanks to: Alaina Gallagher & Jill Gallagher for developmental editing assistance.
Read the transcript here (www.sesync.org...) .
SESYNC (www.sesync.org/) team project and paper info: Modeling Stewardship Decisions (www.sesync.org...) ; Private land conservation decision-making: An integrative social science model (www.sesync.org...)
Additional Interesting Sources:
Zarook, R. (2022, December 9). Map of the Week: Mapping Private vs. Public Land in the United States. UBIQUE. American Geographical Society. ubique.america....
Merrill, D., Pendleton, D., Alexander, S. et al. (2019, September 9). Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America: The 100 largest private landowners in the U.S. own 40 million acres-an area the size of Florida. Bloomberg. www.bloomberg....