Private Forestlands and Community Planning

"This report was prepared under the U.S.D.A. Forest Service and Virginia Department of Forestry U&CF Assistance Grant Program. It introduces an advanced model of local government planning for private forestlands based on behavioralism. The technique is called, Culture Based Incentive Planning, or CBIP, and has been under development at Virginia Tech. The model and its associated techniques draw upon a number of disciplines with which planning has no substantial heritage of collaboration: applied behavior analysis, behavioral economics, cultural anthropology, and the management sciences concerned with influence and persuasion. The basic premise of the approach is to plan based on human nature and the American culture, not to ignore them in implementation strategies. While these behavioral techniques are new to land planning, they have been widely researched and employed, often for decades, in other fields with significant success. There is little question that the principles that provide the foundation for CBIP are highly effective and well suited for application in issues of forestland planning." [from Forward]

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