Community Survey Results
Nick Emtage and John Herbohn
School of Integrative Systems, The University of
Queensland
ISBN 9781921359217
Published February 2009
MTSRF Project 4.9.4 -
Integrating ecology, economics and people in forest and
landscapes
Introduction
This report presents analyses of responses to the mail-based
survey of rural landholders' NRM attitudes, values and practices in
the Wet Tropics NRM region undertaken by staff from The University
of Queensland between December 2007 and January 2008. This report describes the
first stages in the development of a typology of rural landholders
in relation to their management of natural resources in the Wet
Tropics region. The first half of the report describes the results
of principal component (factor) analyses of responses to the
questionnaire. The second part of the report presents a series of
analyses of the differences between groups of landholders. The
groups were defined according to the stated main purpose(s) for
owning a rural property, their main land use(s), and groups of
landholders classified according to their scale of agricultural
operations.
Four series of landholder profiles are defined, then described
and compared. The first two sets of profiles are based on groups of
landholders classified according to the landholders' reported
primary reason for property ownership and the dominant land use(s)
of the property. The third and fourth profiles concentrate on an
exploring the variation within the cropping and grazing industries,
classifying participants in these industries into a series of
groups according to their scale of operation (i.e. the area of land
they have available for cropping and grazing activities
respectively).
