Public preferences for biodiversity conservation and climate-change mitigation: A choice experiment using ecosystem services indicators

Shoyama, Kikuko; Managi, Shunsuke; Yamagata, Yoshiki

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.04.003

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“…The CE model sets alternative options to present to the respondents and asks them to choose the most preferred among the alternative options using the random utility model [29]. The goods and services could be described as a series of attributes with their own levels and thus could capture the respondents' option decisions based on the utility function, with the preference obtained from the alternative option given [30].…”

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Capturing Tourists’ Preferences for the Management of Community-Based Ecotourism in a Forest Park

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Abstract:The development of community ecotourism will require the integration of experience, culture, and information for management decision-making. We use a choice experiment to build a community ecotourism preference model incorporating aspects of profound experience and economics in a forest park, test the tourists' heterogeneity by using a random parameter logit model, and estimate the values of various community ecotourism programs. The empirical results reveal that: (1) Tourists' preferences for community ecotourism will increase with the inclusion of a mini tour, experiential activities, and the opportunities to taste local dishes and stay at a distinctive bed & breakfast (B&B); (2) The variety of tourists' social backgrounds and recreational experiences resulted in the heterogeneity of the attributes; (3) The best combinations regarding community ecotourism were a small group size, profound or in-depth experiences, and experiential activities in a forest park. This pilot study generates useful information by demonstrating possible community ecotourism programs in the forest park, along with suggestions for a quality improvement program.

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Capturing Tourists’ Preferences for the Management of Community-Based Ecotourism in a Forest Park

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“…The distribution of the final CE questionnaire started in October of 2015. Based on the above discussion, seven characteristics were included as CE attributes in the design: agricultural farming type [24,25], biodiversity [6,16,26], water provision [12], land use type [6,10,13,26,27], ecotourism mode [13], WTP, and WTW [6,13,26,28], as well as the levels of the attributes in relation to ecosystem services, as shown in Table 1. Agricultural production provides nutrition and health for human society [29].…”

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“…Shoyama et al [10] designed the land use scenario, and integrated the natural forest, wetland, managed forest, and agricultural land into a program for biodiversity conservation and climate-change mitigation. García-Llorente et al [13] showed that the best land use scenario for a semi-watershed integrates the attributes of cooperation, profit from selling forest products, such as timber, small trees for gardening, agricultural land, protected area, ecotourism, and river quality [18].…”

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Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Lee

Wang

2017

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This paper aims to build up a preference function to evaluate the public benefits of the type of agricultural farming, biodiversity, water provisions, land use type, ecotourism modes, and a monetary attribute (willingness to pay and willingness to work) associated with an ecosystem service and land use program in a forest park. This study used choice experiments to build a random utility model, analyze the average preference for the above land use attributes based on the conditional logit (CL) and used a latent class model to test the residents' heterogeneous preferences for land use planning in the forest park. We also estimated the welfare derived from various land use programs. The empirical result has shown that: (1) increasing organic farming area, increasing the surface water provision, increasing the area of custom flora, increasing the wetland area, and setting up an integrated framework for ecotourism increase the public's preference for the land use program; (2) farmer and non-farmers do not have the same land use preferences, attributes, marginal willingness to pay and willingness to work; and (3) the ecotourism development program incorporating biodiversity, organic farming, ethnobotany, and wetland area with integrated ecotourism has the highest values when compared to other land use program scenarios.

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“…Utility does not equal the goods and services directly but rather the attributes that they contain (Tawfik 2010). It assumes that when respondents are forced to choose between a collection of different attributes contained in alternative A or B, they will choose the alternative with greater total utility (Shoyama 2013 yet the cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of boaters and anglers using the ecosystem creates stress that degrades the system. Such loss eventually impacts immediate gratification, because regular users will become discouraged by perceptions of impoverished water quality and fishing opportunities.…”

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Stakeholder Perceptions and Preferences for Coral Reef Restoration and Sustainable Resource Management

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Professor Pallab Mozumder, Major ProfessorThe Florida Reef and associated human community form a unique socioecological system. While this system represents great value to society, it is exposed to high levels of vulnerability. Despite intense study of its elements, the system lacks conceptual integrity, its management is fragmented, and user valuation remains unclear.A survey using contingent valuation methods investigated stakeholders' attitudes and how much they are willing to pay for sustainable seafood, coral reef restoration, and research funding for coral reefs in southeastern Florida. Respondents expressed angst about climate change and reef conditions, and they connected reef degradation to land-based pollution and water quality. Regression analysis revealed status (income, education) as weak, indirect predictors of behavior, age as a moderating influence, and environmental and emotive factors as strong, direct predictors. One's relative attachment to ecosystems, such as coral reefs, is theorized as a motivation that displaces the expectations of traditional economic theory. iv The present investigation uses contingent valuation to assess preferences of residential reef users who live within the region adjacent to the coral reefs of Florida. TheFlorida Reef is one of the world's most popular coral reef systems in terms of tourism, and it is the only such ecosystem within the continental United States. Its popularity and its proximity to a large population are reflected in the ranking of the entire system as being under threat (Burke 2011).Although several relevant technical reports have been published within the past decade, sparse scientific literature addresses preferences and public perceptions of the Florida Reef. These reports reveal trends also appearing in the broader social science literature; namely, people lack an understanding of oceanic ecosystems; despite this knowledge deficit, they express support for oceanic conservation; and they are willing to pay more than current levies for the protection of coral reefs.The conception of the Florida Reef as one socio-ecological system is relatively new. In the academic arena, physical and social sciences traditionally have been segregated by discipline; likewise, the Florida Reef itself has been segregated into discontinuous segments to facilitate study. Mapping technology has enhanced an ability to portray both coral reef segments and the system as a whole; the first comprehensive, integrated GIS map of the Florida Reef was published the by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in 2013 (FWRI). Even the system's name is unclear, as the 3 scientific community uses "Florida Reef Tract" to refer to either the system or a northern sub-section. Hence, the current study avoids that term and favors adoption of the term "Florida Reef."Commonly associated with the Florida Keys, the Florida Reef forms an arc that parallels the Atlantic shoreline of southeastern Florida and extends north of Palm BeachCounty. This northern region lacks pr...

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Public preferences for biodiversity conservation and climate-change mitigation: A choice experiment using ecosystem services indicators

Cited by 90 publications

References 24 publications

Capturing Tourists’ Preferences for the Management of Community-Based Ecotourism in a Forest Park

Capturing Tourists’ Preferences for the Management of Community-Based Ecotourism in a Forest Park

Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Stakeholder Perceptions and Preferences for Coral Reef Restoration and Sustainable Resource Management

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