Using attitudinal data to identify latent classes that vary in their preference for landscape preservation

Morey, Edward R.; Thiene, Mara; Salvo, Maria De; Signorello, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.05.015

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“…The rationale of using attitudinal responses to explain choice behaviour and WTP has also been challenged. Morey, Thacher, and Breffle (2006) and Morey et al (2008) argue that attitudinal responses cannot determine WTP responses or choice behaviour because WTP responses, observed choices, and answers to attitudinal questions all manifest the same latent preferences. Econometrically, attitudinal variables in a choice model might induce an endogeneity bias on the goodness-of-fit measures.…”

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confidence: 99%

Integrating nature-based tourism and forestry in private lands under heterogeneous visitor preferences for forest attributes

Mäntymaa

Ovaskainen

Juutinen

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Developing nature-based tourism in private lands calls for new mechanisms to consolidate the interests of the tourism industry, visitors, and landowners. This choice experiment study elaborates on the heterogeneity of visitors' preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for enhanced forest amenities and ecosystem services. The survey, targeting domestic and foreign tourists visiting the Ruka-Kuusamo area in Finland, considered four attributes: landscape quality, outdoor routes, forest biodiversity, and carbon sequestration. For observed heterogeneity, the visitors were grouped by their attitudes towards forest management. Unobserved heterogeneity in visitors' choice behaviour and WTP was examined with the latent class model. While most visitors had environmentally friendly attitudes and were willing to pay, especially for enhanced landscape quality and biodiversity, considerable heterogeneity was revealed in terms of three segments with distinctive attitudes, choice behaviour and WTP. The variation in WTP has important implications for the design of a scheme of payments for environmental management.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating nature-based tourism and forestry in private lands under heterogeneous visitor preferences for forest attributes

Mäntymaa

Ovaskainen

Juutinen

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…This omission of a price term is not unique. In their investigation of preferences for landscape preservation, Morey et al (2008) use only attitudinal data to derive latent class membership to help explain variation in WTP elicited from an earlier CV question. A utility scale, without a price attribute, was also employed by Sayadi et al (2005) to assess preferences for agri-environmental attributes in the Alpurjarran landscape of south-eastern Spain.…”

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“…al., 2008;Ruto and Garrod, 2009;Glenk, 2011) including public preferences for landscape (e.g. Morey et al, 2008;Sevenant and Antrop, 2010). Brouwer et al (2010) used LCM and other approaches to assess preference heterogeneity related to the spatial distribution of water quality improvements in a river basin and found that respondents valued water quality improvements differently depending on where they lived.…”

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Heterogeneity of preferences for the benefits of Environmental Stewardship: A latent-class approach

Garrod

Ruto

Willis

et al. 2012

Ecological Economics

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Since 2005, Environmental Stewardship (ES) has been the principal agri-environment scheme for England and is the key instrument for the delivery of increased environmental benefits from agricultural landscapes. The main objective of this study is to investigate whether or not individuals' preferences for the environmental benefits associated with ES vary depending on types of landscapes within which these benefits are delivered. A latent class model is applied to data obtained from a choice experiment survey of over 1,000 respondents sampled across England. The results suggest that individuals have heterogenous preferences for the benefits of ES, though different segments of the population with more homogenous preferences can be identified. In particular, higher levels of benefit are often associated with the operation of ES in landscapes close to where respondents live. This leads to the suggestion that, in order to maximise the benefits of ES, its implementation could take this result into account by encouraging greater uptake from farmers whose land is closer to large populations.

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“…Given equation (2), the probability for respondent n of choosing "yes" to the preservation of landscape i in choice occasion t is described by the Multinomial Logit model (MNL) (Hanemann, 1984;McFadden, 1974) as: People's preferences for landscape preservation are, by nature, heterogeneous (Morey et al, 2008;Nahuelhual et al, 2004). The presence of such heterogeneity is not detected by the standard MNL model.…”

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Stated preference methods and landscape ecology indicators: An example of transdisciplinarity in landscape economic valuation

Tagliafierro

Boeri

Longo

et al. 2016

Ecological Economics

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This paper addresses the representation of landscape complexity in stated preferences research. It integrates landscape ecology and landscape economics and conducts the landscape analysis in a three-dimensional space to provide ecologically meaningful quantitative landscape indicators that are used as variables for the monetary valuation of landscape in a stated preferences study. Expected heterogeneity in taste intensity across respondents is addressed with a mixed logit model in Willingness to Pay space. Our methodology is applied to value, in monetary terms, the landscape of the Sorrento Peninsula in Italy, an area that has faced increasing pressure from urbanization affecting its traditional horticultural, herbaceous, and arboreal structure, with loss of biodiversity, and an increasing risk of landslides. We find that residents of the Sorrento Peninsula would prefer landscapes characterized by large open views and natural features.Residents also appear to dislike heterogeneous landscapes and the presence of lemon orchards and farmers' stewardship, which are associated with the current failure of protecting the traditional landscape. The outcomes suggest that the use of landscape ecology metrics in a stated preferences model may be an effective way to move forward integrated methodologies to better understand and represent landscape and its complexity.

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Using attitudinal data to identify latent classes that vary in their preference for landscape preservation

Cited by 42 publications

References 33 publications

Integrating nature-based tourism and forestry in private lands under heterogeneous visitor preferences for forest attributes

Integrating nature-based tourism and forestry in private lands under heterogeneous visitor preferences for forest attributes

Heterogeneity of preferences for the benefits of Environmental Stewardship: A latent-class approach

Stated preference methods and landscape ecology indicators: An example of transdisciplinarity in landscape economic valuation

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