Institutions, Culture, and Wetland Values

Chaikumbung, Mayula; Doucouliagos, Hristos; Scarborough, Helen

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.014

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“…To mitigate the risk of reverse causality, this study follows Chaikumbung et al 35 and Chaikumbung 36 by using three 3-year lags in democracy and also public health expenditure variables. Lagged values are based on the idea that even if democracy and public health spending today are correlated with WTP for healthcare services but not causing them, then lagged values in democracy and public health expenditure are more likely to cause valuations.…”

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Democracy, Culture and Cancer Patients’ Willingness to Pay for Healthcare Services: A Meta-analysis

Chaikumbung

2021

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Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally and expenditure associated with cancer is quite high. Efficient resource allocation needs information on economic evaluations of healthcare interventions. The purposes of the study are to provide a comprehensive overview of cancer patients’ willingness to pay (WTP) for healthcare services and to investigate the influence of democracies, culture dimensions, and other factors on WTP. A meta-analysis was conducted using PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar to identify all studies of stated preference approach to estimate cancer patients’ WTP healthcare services. A set of criteria was constructed for selecting relevant studies. A total of 79 studies were related to selection criteria and held sufficient information for the purposes of meta-analysis. A total of 393 estimates of WTP from 79 healthcare valuation studies were pooled to identify the links between WTP and influential factors. The findings suggest that values of benefits in healthcare services are higher in more democratic nations, but they are lower in cultural traits that are stronger indulgence and uncertainty avoidance. Further, the types of cancer matter. Compared to breast cancer, WTP is higher for skin cancer, yet lower for liver cancer and lymphoma. A higher national income and public health expenditure increase WTP for healthcare services, while a higher death rate by cancer leads to lower values of healthcare benefits.

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Democracy, Culture and Cancer Patients’ Willingness to Pay for Healthcare Services: A Meta-analysis

Chaikumbung

2021

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“…[76] (pp. [21][22][23][24][25][26] Therefore, efficiency is determined by the institutional set (property rights). A further development of this concept is new institutional economics (NIE), which focuses on the role that culture, legal systems, political institutions, and other instances have on economic development.…”

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“…Hence, grasslands represent the least understood biome in terms of their true value for sustainable economic uses and their contribution to human health and well-being through sociocultural services [20,21]. Better understanding social dynamics, including indigenous and traditional values, requires science-based valuations to leverage narratives on the region's sustainable development [22][23][24][25][26]. De facto, interdisciplinary research incorporating socio-economic approaches as important determinants of value is critical for policy making [12,18,[26][27][28].…”

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“…Our contribution tries to fill this gap by investigating local perceptions about economic and political centralization, the role of governments, and social exclusion. We follow existing literature, discussing weak governance, which is understood as a widespread system of corruption and unlawful behavior, and how it contributes to increasing negative consequences, including environmental, socio-economic, and institutional conflicts, along with social exclusion and poverty [12,[26][27][28][29].…”

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Mechanisms of Weak Governance in Grasslands and Wetlands of South America

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Weak governance is a major threat to sustainable development, especially in rural contexts and within ecosystems of great social and economic value. To understand and compare its arrangement in the grasslands and wetlands of the Colombian Llanos and the Paraguayan Pantanal, we build upon the Institutional and Development Framework (IAD) as we explore the role of political, economic, and social institutions and combine components of the theory of common-pool resources (CPR) and new institutional economics (NIE). This hybrid conceptualization provides a synthesis of how top-down hierarchical and market-based systems of community-based and natural resource management negatively affect sustainable development in both study areas. Our findings suggest three underlying mechanisms causing a situation of weak governance: centralized (economic and political) power, the role of central and local governments, and social exclusion. Understanding these multidimensional contextual mechanisms improves the understanding that institutional structures supporting arrangements that handle grasslands and wetlands in a sustainable way are needed to protect the ecosystem’s social and economic values, especially in rural and marginalized contexts.

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“…Despite their many services, the current situation regarding wetlands around the world is one of the decline and deterioration. Between 1970 and 2015, both inland and coastal wetland areas decreased by about 35% (Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, 2018), particularly in developing countries (Chaikumbung, Doucouliagos, & Scarborough, 2019). In Thailand, wetlands covered an area of 36,616 km 2 or 7.5% of the country area.…”

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Ecosystem Services of a Wetland in the Politically Unstable Southernmost Provinces of Thailand

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Roongtawanreongsri

Hajısamae

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Tropical Conservation Science

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This study aims to answer questions about the importance and utilization of wetland provisioning ecosystem services (ES) in the disturbed southernmost provinces of Thailand, calling for the need for sustainable wetland management. Generally, natural resources management in the unrest area has been neglected because security-related policies have usually received higher priority. The study surveyed a sample of 328 households to explore the types and importance of provisioning wetland ES that have value to the local people. The statistics used to analyze data are percentage, mean, standard deviation, and calculation of the value of provisioning ES. Quantitative data were presented to a participatory workshop of 22 stakeholders to explore guidelines for wetland management. The results indicate that wetland plays a vital role in the livelihood of the local community by providing a variety of provisioning ES. Nine of the 13 ES addressed in the study were perceived as important to very important by the local people. Based on the guidelines provided by the stakeholders, an initial strategy has been formulated in the study.

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Institutions, Culture, and Wetland Values

Cited by 18 publications

References 73 publications

Democracy, Culture and Cancer Patients’ Willingness to Pay for Healthcare Services: A Meta-analysis

Democracy, Culture and Cancer Patients’ Willingness to Pay for Healthcare Services: A Meta-analysis

Mechanisms of Weak Governance in Grasslands and Wetlands of South America

Ecosystem Services of a Wetland in the Politically Unstable Southernmost Provinces of Thailand

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