Examining labelling effects within discrete choice experiments: An application to recreational site choice

Doherty, Edel; Campbell, Danny; Hynes, Stephen; Rensburg, Thomas M. van

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.056

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“…In most RBDs we find a pattern of decreasing association from walking-boating-fishing-swimming, but in the Northumbrian and Anglian RBDs this pattern is reversed. Detailed exploration of these regional differences is beyond the scope of this paper, but as potential explanations we suggest regional idiosyncrasies in (i) demography, with younger people being more critical of water quality [49], (ii) frequency of recreational water use, with more frequent water users more sensitive to differences in water status [52], (iii) relative importance of site choice factors, in that residents of more urbanized RBDs may be less sensitive to water status, (iv) differences in typical travel distances (willingness to travel farther) for different populations in different regions of England, (v) attachment to specific sites irrespective of water quality, through force of habit [53,54] or marketing of specific sites [55]. …”

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Water Quality Is a Poor Predictor of Recreational Hotspots in England

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Maintaining and improving water quality is key to the protection and restoration of aquatic ecosystems, which provide important benefits to society. In Europe, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) defines water quality based on a set of biological, hydro-morphological and chemical targets, and aims to reach good quality conditions in all river bodies by the year 2027. While recently it has been argued that achieving these goals will deliver and enhance ecosystem services, in particular recreational services, there is little empirical evidence demonstrating so. Here we test the hypothesis that good water quality is associated with increased utilization of recreational services, combining four surveys covering walking, boating, fishing and swimming visits, together with water quality data for all water bodies in eight River Basin Districts (RBDs) in England. We compared the percentage of visits in areas of good water quality to a set of null models accounting for population density, income, age distribution, travel distance, public access, and substitutability. We expect such association to be positive, at least for fishing (which relies on fish stocks) and swimming (with direct contact to water). We also test if these services have stronger association with water quality relative to boating and walking alongside rivers, canals or lakeshores. In only two of eight RBDs (Northumbria and Anglian) were both criteria met (positive association, strongest for fishing and swimming) when comparing to at least one of the null models. This conclusion is robust to variations in dataset size. Our study suggests that achieving the WFD water quality goals may not enhance recreational ecosystem services, and calls for further empirical research on the connection between water quality and ecosystem services.

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Water Quality Is a Poor Predictor of Recreational Hotspots in England

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“…A, B, C, …) and respondents differentiate among the proposed alternatives only through the attributes and their levels. While labeled alternatives may make the choice task more concrete for respondents, recent contributions find evidence that a proportion of respondents chose on the basis of the label only (Doherty et al ., ), and that unlabeled DCEs may be more suitable to investigate tradeoffs between attributes (Bekker‐Grob et al ., ). Such tradeoffs appear to be important in our investigation as one of our aims is to highlight priorities for the future policies.…”

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Valuing the Impacts of An Invasive Biological Control Agent: A Choice Experiment on the Asian Ladybird in France

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J Agricultural Economics

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Initially used as a biological control against aphids, the Asian ladybird has become highly invasive in many regions, including Europe. While biological control is usually considered as an environmentally‐friendly alternative to chemical pesticides in controlling pests in crops, there is growing concern that these environmental benefits could be outweighed by the negative consequences of the invasion. These include (i) biodiversity losses as populations of native ladybirds suffer from intraguild predation and competition for resources; (ii) human nuisance in houses, including risks of allergy and (iii) potential losses to wine‐growers. We provide an economic valuation of environmental and private characteristics affected by the Asian ladybird's invasion. We conduct a discrete choice experiment among a representative sample of the French population. Our results show that the consequences of the Asian ladybird's introduction do affect significantly the population's welfare. Among these, the impact on biodiversity through the threat on native species appears to be a significant concern.

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“…In the presence of trust, individuals tend to conserve cognitive energy in their decisionmaking processes (Kahneman and Frederick 2002;Doherty, Campbell, Hynes and van Rensburg, 2013) by passively assessing information (Tost 2011). In the passive mode, an individual does not engage in rigorous evaluation.…”

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Third-Party Certification, Sponsorship, and Consumers’ Ecolabel Use

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While prior ecolabel research suggests that consumers' trust of ecolabel sponsors is associated with their purchase of ecolabeled products, we know little about how third-party certification might relate to consumer purchases when trust varies. Drawing on cognitive theory and a stratified random sample of more than 1200 consumers, we assess how third-party certification relates to consumers' use of ecolabels across different program sponsors. We find that consumers' trust of government and environmental NGOs to provide credible environmental information encourages consumers' use of ecolabels sponsored by these entities, and consumers do not differentiate between certified versus uncertified ecolabels in the presence of trust. By contrast, consumers' distrust of private business to provide credible environmental information discourages their use of business association-sponsored ecolabels. However, these ecolabels may be able to overcome consumer distrust if their sponsors certify the ecolabels using third-party auditors. These findings are important to sponsors who wish develop ecolabels that are more credible to consumers, and thus encourage more widespread ecolabel use.

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Examining labelling effects within discrete choice experiments: An application to recreational site choice

Cited by 18 publications

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Water Quality Is a Poor Predictor of Recreational Hotspots in England

Water Quality Is a Poor Predictor of Recreational Hotspots in England

Valuing the Impacts of An Invasive Biological Control Agent: A Choice Experiment on the Asian Ladybird in France

Third-Party Certification, Sponsorship, and Consumers’ Ecolabel Use

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