Blacks in Space Land Tenure and Well-being in Perry County 在空间的土地使用权的黑人和福祉的佩里县.pptVIP

Blacks in Space: Land Tenure and Well-being in Perry County, Alabama Rory Fraser Center For Forestry and Ecology Alabama AM University Presentation Outline Introduction Background and Historical Aspects of Land Tenure and Well-being Proposed Study Data Collection, Analysis Results Conclusion Introduction “In spite of the great socio-economic importance of forests in the South, we still know relatively little about the relationships between forests and minority and limited resource landowners” (Schelhas and Zabawa 2000). Previous efforts to understand persistent poverty in the south focused on the role of farm size, ownership type and the barriers related to institutions services, and racial discrimination Importance of the relationship between spatial distribution of land tenure arrangement and wellbeing…needs to be explored (Bliss et al., 1998) This study investigated the relationship between land tenure and well-being in a spatial perspective. Land use land cover and Tenure changes Pre-Colonial Plantations and King Cotton Reconstruction Jim Crow Farm mechanization, Boll Weevil and WW1 New Deal Programs Emergence of Forest Regime Conversion of agricultural land and intensive management of virgin forest land Alabama legislation: balance agriculture with industry Opening of Pulp and Paper industries Single species plantation Change in landscape and tenancy Fragmentation or consolidation of land Change in land use land cover and tenancy yeoman farmer ? plantation system ? sharecropping ? individual small farmers ? commercial farmers? large forest plantations Study Objectives Examined the relationship between land tenure and well-being in a rural, predominantly Afro-American County Examined the concentration of Afro-Americans and the well-being of the Afro-American Population at the block groups level. Explored the spatial relationship between well-being and land cover type and compared this relationship between white