Application of Choice Experiments to Determine Stakeholder Preferences for Woody Biomass Harvesting Guidelines

Serenari, Christopher; Peterson, M. Nils; Moorman, Christopher E.; Cubbage, Frederick W.; Jervis, S.M.

doi:10.1080/10549811.2015.1007511

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“…We mailed 1,000 shortened surveys to non‐respondents, including those who did not complete the choice modeling section, and then compared responses between samples. We also employed a continuum of resistance approach, where the underlying assumption is that late respondents are comparable to non‐respondents (Serenari et al ). We divided respondents into 2 groups based on whether they submitted an early or late response and compared wave responses for the same 10 survey questions.…”

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Explaining deer hunter preferences for regulatory changes using choice experiments

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Achieving state wildlife agency goals for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) management may conflict with hunter traditions and desires. Optimizing deer herd management given conflicting biological and social goals means that agencies will need to better understand what trade-offs can be made. In North Carolina, USA, the harvest of deer by hunters is skewed towards males <2.5 years old and all firearm hunting seasons begin prior to the rut. Both trends can have undesirable consequences for deer populations, hunters, and deer managers. To provide better information to mitigate the potential for undesirable consequences, we modeled deer hunter choice behavior using a discrete choice experiment to identify their preferences for regulatory components and policy alternatives. Discrete choice experiments explain the choice behavior of humans via preference elicitation. We obtained the data used in our analysis after contacting 171,880 resident deer hunters by email and postcard to encourage their participation in a web-based survey. We received valid responses from 25,508 resident deer hunters. Respondents identified gun season length as the most important regulatory attribute influencing their decisions about policy, followed by bag limits. Results also suggest that North Carolina's hunters may be more willing to make trade-offs when attributes least affecting their decision making, such as season opening date and blackpowder season length, are altered by decision makers to benefit the deer herd. By employing wildlife valuation methods, such as discrete choice experiments, agencies can gain deep insights into viable trade-offs between different attributes that underpin multidimensional policies, such as deer seasons, not achieved through attitudinal measures alone. Ó 2018 The Wildlife Society.

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“…To evaluate for nonresponse bias, we used the continuum of resistance model (Serenari et al ). This analytic approach is based on the assumption that the level of effort required to elicit a response indicates an individual's willingness to respond, so late respondents are comparable to nonrespondents (Kypri et al ).…”

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“…In our survey, each respondent was presented with 10 different choice scenarios, and attribute levels were randomly changed in each of the 10 choice scenarios. We followed Sawtooth's default design parameters, with a balanced overlap approach (Serenari et al ). The survey was designed and hosted using Sawtooth's SSI Web (Sawtooth Software, Orem, UT, USA).…”

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“…We also calculated importance scores, which measure the percent importance that each attribute has for respondents’ choices. We calculated importance scores by dividing the utility score range for each attribute by the total utility range and multiplying by 100 (Orme , Serenari et al ). We also used individual root likelihood (RLH) values to prevent underestimation.…”

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Multi‐attribute preferences for northern bobwhite habitat restoration among Texas landowners

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Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) abundance has declined range‐wide over the long term due to factors such as habitat loss and deterioration. Private land management is critical to bobwhite conservation because most bobwhites occur on private lands, but little research has been conducted regarding how private land managers and landowners make decisions about whether and how to restore northern bobwhite habitat. To begin addressing this deficit, we used a choice‐based conjoint approach to determine how Texas, USA, landowners and land managers (surveyed in November 2017) weigh the importance of northern bobwhite hunting opportunities, costs, and labor when making habitat restoration decisions. We also used a latent class analysis to break respondents into segments based on their valuations of these attributes. The results of our latent class analysis indicate that managers and landowners can be grouped into several segments, and most segments do not place a high value on bobwhite hunting opportunities, but instead are more interested in minimizing out‐of‐pocket costs and labor input. Bobwhite habitat restoration programs yielding cost shares ≥50%, labor inputs at ≤30 days/year, and likely coveys flushed per hunting day >4 broadly appealed to landowners; however, ensuring low labor costs was most important, particularly for pragmatic landowners. This indicates that policies minimizing labor inputs and maximizing cost shares may be preferred over increasing hunting opportunities. Finally, we discuss the management preferences and practices of the segment most interested in maximizing bobwhite hunting opportunities and potential outreach strategies for segments of opportunistic and pragmatic landowners who may be persuaded to manage for bobwhite habitat if they perceived this management as economically viable. © 2019 The Authors. Wildlife Society Bulletin Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…Most of the studies have focused on forest management [38,39], valuation of forest land uses [40,41] or forest conservation programs [33,42]. Only two studies were dealing with decisions on biomass [43] or wood harvesting [44]. It is very common to ask consumers about their preference for different products, also in the agricultural sector (e.g., oil, tomatoes, cheese, honey, coffee), but not really about the machines or systems which produce those products.…”

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Using Conjoint Analyses to Improve Cable Yarder Design Characteristics: An Austrian Yarder Case Study to Advance Cost-Effective Extraction

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Ghaffariyan

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Steep country harvesting has been identified as the main bottleneck to achieving greater profitability in the forestry sector of New Zealand and Australia. An improvement of efficiency, work safety and environmental sustainability should be realized by developing an advanced steep terrain timber harvesting system based on innovative Austrian technology. To identify the best suitable configuration of a cable yarder for steep terrain harvesting, user preferences based on an online survey (conjoint analysis) have been evaluated to answer the following questions: (1) What attributes of a new yarder design are most important to consumers? (2) Which criteria do stakeholders consider when selecting a cable yarder? (3) What are the weights representing the relative importance of criteria? Using eight specific design scenarios a fourth question, being which cable yarder concept is the best, was also answered. This case study shows that conjoint analyses is an effective tool to assess, rate and subsequently integrate design characteristics. Based on the results of the analysis, a cable yarder prototype will be manufactured in Austria and transferred to New Zealand for testing and demonstration.

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Application of Choice Experiments to Determine Stakeholder Preferences for Woody Biomass Harvesting Guidelines

Cited by 6 publications

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Explaining deer hunter preferences for regulatory changes using choice experiments

Explaining deer hunter preferences for regulatory changes using choice experiments

Multi‐attribute preferences for northern bobwhite habitat restoration among Texas landowners

Using Conjoint Analyses to Improve Cable Yarder Design Characteristics: An Austrian Yarder Case Study to Advance Cost-Effective Extraction

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