Valuing Watershed Services in Mexico’s Temperate Forests

Kim, Yeon-Su; Návar-Cháidez, José de Jesús; Pérez-Verdín, Gustavo; Silva-Flores, Ramón

doi:10.4236/me.2011.25085

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“…For example, positive impact of income on WTP is witnessed in studies by Westerberg et al, 2010;Ghosh and Mondal, 2012;Birol et al, 2006;Othman et al, 2004;Birol et al, 2011;Hanley et al, 2006;Oglethorpe and Miliadou, 2000;Bliem et al, 2012 andNuva et al, 2011.The positive effect of membership in NGO on WTP also reported by Oglethorpe and Miliadou 2000;Pattison et al 2011. The negative interaction between number of people per household with the level 3 of natural scenery indicates that large families have lower WTP compare to small size families. Our results were similar to some other previous studies (Perez-Verdin et al, 2011;Hammitt et al, 2001;Pattison et al, 2011). The negative interaction between the level 3 of biological diversity and age was supported by the results of study conducted by Oglethorpe and Miliadou 2000.…”

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Users and Non-users of Wetland Area; Willingness to Pay and Demand Elasticity

Kaffashi¹,

Shamsudin²,

Radam³

et al. 2015

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The present paper uses error component model to elicit respondents preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for wetland conservation. The main objective of this research was to estimate the difference between preferences and WTP of respondents who are users of wetland and those who consider as non-users. The results of structural equation modelling (SEM) and error component logit model (ECM) showed significant difference between WTP and attitudinal factors of two groups. The results of SEM indicated that respondents' management concerns, income, and their employment status had positive and direct effect on their WTP. Results of ECM showed that user model is slightly better predictor of respondents' choice. The non-market values of the wetland for users are estimated approximately US$ 3.67 per household per month meanwhile this value for nonusers was about US$ 2.80. The overall results indicated that familiarity and previous knowledge on wetland has significant effect on respondnets' perception, attitudes and WTP. Results also showed that demand for better conservation and management of wetland is relatively price inelastic. This study conclude that improvement in Shadegan International Wetland management will bring higher utility for both users and nonusers society and hence will be supported by them.

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confidence: 83%

Users and Non-users of Wetland Area; Willingness to Pay and Demand Elasticity

Kaffashi¹,

Shamsudin²,

Radam³

et al. 2015

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Impact of environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns on willingness to pay for improved air quality: a contingent valuation application in Mexico City

Filippini

Martínez-Cruz

2016

Lat Am Econ Rev

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By means of a single-bounded, referendum format contingent valuation, this paper estimates willingness to pay (WTP) for improved air quality among residents of Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA). Findings from this paper illustrate heterogeneity in WTP associated with environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns. For instance, WTP is higher than average if respondents state a very high priority to air pollution but smaller than average if respondent's household contains more adults than the sample median. This contingent valuation exercise provides elements to carry out cost-benefit analysis of environmental policies both recently implemented and currently under discussion in the MCMA context. For instance, a cost-benefit analysis using estimates from this paper suggests benefits from improved air quality surpass the costs of investing in hybrid buses. Usefulness of this study is underscored by pointing out recent evidence suggesting that (1) air pollution in MCMA has larger health impacts than in similar cities located in developed countries, and (2) policies tackling air pollution in MCMA have had no impact on pollution levels.

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Forest land-cover trends in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, 1994–2017

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Summary The hibernation sites of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus, L.) were discovered in central Mexico in 1975 and, following the decree of a protected area in 1986, processes of deforestation and forest degradation were triggered on the socially owned land in question. Further deterioration has occurred since the expansion and designation of the area as the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in 2000. An innovative programme of economic incentives was established to compensate the affected properties in the core zone for curtailment of their forest use and to pay for environmental services; however, some of the agrarian communities were in disagreement with this programme. Orthophotographs from 1994 were compared with high-resolution satellite images from 2017 in order to determine forest-cover trends in the areas incentivized by Payment for Environmental Services to avoid deforestation and those areas that were not incentivized. The results show an overall recovery of 2% in forest area between 1994 and 2017, while a 5% increase in the deforested area is notable in the core zone. The findings indicate that, for the establishment of an effective protected area on social property lands, consensus must be achieved across all of the communities in order to avoid subsequent forest loss.

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Valuing Watershed Services in Mexico’s Temperate Forests

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Users and Non-users of Wetland Area; Willingness to Pay and Demand Elasticity

Users and Non-users of Wetland Area; Willingness to Pay and Demand Elasticity

Impact of environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns on willingness to pay for improved air quality: a contingent valuation application in Mexico City

Forest land-cover trends in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, 1994–2017

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