Theory of Planned Behavior Attitudes toward Biodiversity Improvement Survey

Spash, Clive L.; Urama, Kevin; Burton, Rob; Kenyon, Wendy; Shannon, Peter; Hill, Gary

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“…payment vehicle) (Mitchell and Carson, 248 1989). Protesters, if identified, are usually dropped from further analysis (Adams et al, 249 2008;Mitchell and Carson, 1989;Ressurreição et al, 2011;Spash et al, 2009). 250 Debriefing questions also allow exploration of the motivations underlying positive WTP 251 responses.…”

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Different cultures, different values: The role of cultural variation in public’s WTP for marine species conservation

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Kaiser

et al. 2012

Biological Conservation

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Understanding the cultural variation in public preference for marine species is a necessary pre-requisite if conservation objectives are to include societal preferences in addition to scientific considerations. We report the results of a contingent study undertaken at three case-study sites: Azores islands (Portugal), Gulf of Gdansk (Poland) and Isles of Scilly (UK). The study considered species richness of five specific marine taxa (mammals, birds, fish, invertebrates and algae) as proxies of marine biodiversity and the aim of analysis was to estimate from a multi-site perspective public's willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid increased levels of species loss (reduction of species richness) for different marine taxa. Results, based on 1502 face-to-face interviews, showed that income, education and environmental awareness of the respondents were significant predictors of WTP for marine species conservation. Results also indicated that respondents in each of the European locations had different preferences for marine taxa. In the Azores, although mammals and fish were valued highly, small differences occurred in the WTP among different taxa. Respondents in the Isles of Scilly put a relatively low value on fish while algae and marine mammals were highly valued. In Gdansk, respondents defined a clear order of preference for marine mammals> fish> birds> invertebrates and algae. These findings suggested that cultural differences may be important drivers of valuation and undermines the commonly held premise that charismatic/likeable taxa consistently have a disproportionately strong influence on WTP for biodiversity conservation. We conclude that conservation policy must take account of cultural diversity alongside biological diversity.

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