Abstract The population of absentee landholders, in rural areas of Australia and worldwide, has risen over recent decades, underpinning the need to better understand how to effectively engage this stakeholder group, especially from natural resource management (NRM) agencies. Prior research argues that these often difficult-to-reach rural actors play an important role in environmental management, biodiversity conservation and cross property collaborations. Therefore, this paper investigates the ways in which absentee landholders access information on land management practices, the extent of their engagement with government NRM agencies, and the potential for absentee landholders to engage in cross-property collaboration. Focusing on a case study in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, the results indicate that absentee landholders in the case study region access a range of government and personal sources for information, with Local Land Services (a regional NRM agency) and neighbours being the two most commonly used sources amongst survey respondents. Reasons behind the frequent use of Local Land Services include the awareness and trustworthiness that absentee landholders have of this source of information. As for collaborations, most absentee landholders expressed a preference for non-commercial collaborations related to conservation and amenity, as opposed to production-related or other commercial activities. Motivations to collaborate included knowledge-sharing and a collective effort to manage cross-property conservation issues. Hence, it is recommended that NRM agencies recognize the role they can play in adaptive co-management by providing information to absentee landholders, facilitating collaborations around knowledge-sharing and conservation, and continuously adapting their outreach to accommodate for the growing heterogeneity in values and interests.

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了解信息来源模式和缺席土地所有者之间合作的动机：新南威尔士州中央高原的案例研究

摘要 近几十年来，澳大利亚和世界各地农村地区的缺席土地所有者人数不断增加，这表明需要更好地了解如何有效地参与这一利益相关者群体，尤其是来自自然资源管理 (NRM) 机构的利益相关者群体。先前的研究认为，这些通常难以接触到的农村参与者在环境管理、生物多样性保护和跨财产合作方面发挥着重要作用。因此，本文调查了缺席土地所有者获取土地管理实践信息的方式、他们与政府 NRM 机构的接触程度以及缺席土地所有者参与跨财产合作的潜力。以澳大利亚新南威尔士州中部高原的案例研究为重点，结果表明，案例研究地区的缺席土地所有者访问了一系列政府和个人信息来源，当地土地服务（一个区域 NRM 机构）和邻居是调查受访者中最常用的两个来源。频繁使用当地土地服务的原因包括缺席土地所有者对这种信息来源的认识和信任。至于合作，大多数缺席的土地所有者表示更喜欢与保护和舒适性相关的非商业合作，而不是与生产相关的或其他商业活动。合作的动机包括知识共享和管理跨财产保护问题的集体努力。因此，