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,*,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,Click to edit Master title style,Blacks in Space:Land Tenure and Well-being in Perry County,Alabama,Rory Fraser,Center For Forestry and Ecology,Alabama A&M 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 wellbeingneeds to be explored,(Bliss et al.,1998),This study investigated the relationship between land tenure and well-being in a spatial perspective.,Study Area,Perry County,Alabama,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 whites and Afro-American groups,Data and Methodology,Census 2000 Data,Census Block Group(CBG)level.well-being measures-population,race,income,education and poverty.,2.,Digitized Plat(Ownership)Maps,Ownership maps were digitized-parcels for each land-ownership category(Forest Industry,National Forest,etc.),3.,Landsat,ETM,2000 Satellite Data,Image processed and classified into Cropland,Forestland and Other category using ERDAS Imagine 8.6 and ArcView 3.3,These layers were overlaid for further Analysis,Classified Landsat ETM 2000 Image of Perry County,Forestland Distribution in 15 Block Groups,Afro-American Parcels,Non-Timber Industry Parcels,Timber Industry Parcels,National Forest Parcels,Spatial Arrangement of different landownership category in Perry County,Spatial Arrangement of Non-Timber Industry Parcels in Perry Co.,Spatial Arrangement of National Forest Parcels in Perry County,Spatial Arrangement of Timber Industry Parcels in Perry County,Spatial Arrangement of Afro-American Parcels in Perry County,Afro-American landownership,1,416 Afro-American landowners were identified,1,177 were not recorded in the Plat map,238 landowners were listed 354 times.,Most of the unlisted Landowners(1,044)had Perry county address.Others had out county and out State addresses.,Individuals listed on the Plat map:,-230 had in-county addresses,-51 had in-state but not in-county address,-43 had out-of state addresses,Evidence of high number of absentee ownership,The absentee owners who live in Northern Industrial cities had the highest average acreage(77 acres),compared to in-county holders(66 acres)and in-state holders(47 acres),Distribution of Afro-American Population and landowners as well as land cover types in 15 census block groups,Block Group,%,Land,%,Own-ers,%,Popu-lation,Pop,Per,mile,%,Crop,land,%,Forest Land,Low Concentration(4%),2,4,32,6,14,85,Medium,Concentration,(7-9%),4,8,72,27,49,49,High Concentration,(17-18%),7,17,83,27,67,31,Concentration of Black Landownership in 15 Block Groups,Result,Relationship between land cover type and well-being measures,Well-being indicators,poverty,income,education,and,employment,Per Capita Income of Whites and Blacks Population,B.S.Graduates(%)among white and black populations,0.00,Percentage of Employed Whites and Blacks Population,Percentage of below poverty Level population in 15 Block Groups,Summary&Conclusion,Highly segregated county,The top half of the county is heavily forested with predominant white population.However,poverty levels are lowest in the county.In this region,Gaps are high in terms of well-being measures between whites and Afro-Americans.,The other end(south)of the county,is cropland and pasture land dominated with predominant population of Afro-Americans.Poverty rate is extraordinarily high.Income gap between race is considerable.Non-Timber Industry Corporations have their larger holdings.,AfroAmerican Landowners and populatio
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