Agricultural landscape cultivation in Austria: An application of the CVM

Pruckner, Gerald J.

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“…Missing such information, the use of closed elicitation formats becomes impracticable due to difficulty in designing the appropriate bid-vector to proceed with the elicitation in a closed format. Moreover, open-ended formats are also known for their conservative estimates (Pruckner, 1995;Brown et al, 1996) and avoidance of starting point bias (O'Conor et al, 1999;Carlsson and Johansson-Stenman, 2000).…”

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Testing for the survey mode effect on contingent valuation data quality: A case study of web based versus in-person interviews

Marta-Pedroso¹,

Freitas²,

Domingos³

2007

Ecological Economics

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This paper addresses the lack of empirical evaluation of the use of web based surveys in the context of contingent valuation surveys. We compare, using a case study, in-person interviews with web based surveys regarding response rate, information additivity effects and respondents' attitudes towards paying. The web based survey had a much lower response (5.1%) than the in-person interviewing (84%). We find the web based contingent valuation surveys to be neither more susceptible to information additivity effects nor more prone to zero protest responses. We conclude in favor of the use of web based surveys, IntroductionThe contingent valuation method (CVM) is a stated preference method 1 for valuing changes in the provision of nonmarketable goods (e.g. environmental amenities). The method was conceptually proposed by CiriacyWantrup in 1947, but the first empirical application only took place in 1961 with Robert Davis, in the US (Jackobsson and Dragun, 1996; Venkatachalam, 2004). The contingent valuation method rose to high prominence in the 1980s and in the last two decades has been routinely used in the appraisal of projects with impact on the environment. Its potential to capture both use and non-use values of environmental assets and the flexibility of its application largely contributed to its massive use (Carson, 2000).Basically, CVM is a survey-based methodology which relies on obtaining monetary estimates for the economic value of a specified change in the provision of the environmental good of interest, which typically is not traded in the conventional markets. Hence CVM application consists in the construction of hypothetical markets (also called elicitation scenarios) where the individuals' valuation of the good is elicited. Monetary estimates are obtained either as individuals' Willingness to Pay (WTP) or Willingness to Accept (WTA). WTP measures the amount of income a person is willing to forego in exchange for an improved state of an environmental good. E-mail address: cristina.marta@ist.utl.pt (C. Marta-Pedroso). 1 Stated preference, or direct, methods employ constructed markets in an experimental setting to elicit individuals' preferences. Other stated preference valuation approaches include contingent ranking, contingent choice and conjoint analysis (see Boxall et al., 1996, for a comprehensive comparison of the various stated preference approaches).

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Testing for the survey mode effect on contingent valuation data quality: A case study of web based versus in-person interviews

Marta-Pedroso¹,

Freitas²,

Domingos³

2007

Ecological Economics

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“…Drake, 1992;Garrod and Willis, 1992;Pruckner, 1995;Gonzalez and Leon, 2003). The majority of these studies have sought to place a monetary estimate on the benefits that particular landscapes generate for a given population.…”

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Assessing the Value of Forest Landscapes: A Choice Experiment Approach

Garrod

Ruto

Snowdon

2009

Arboricultural Journal

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Landscape planning and design occupies a major role in forest policy in the UK. Since the 1980s, UK forests have been managed increasingly for multi-purpose objectives, a policy which has been underpinned by international agreements on sustainable forestry. Within this context, there is a need to understand public preferences for forest landscapes in designing policies that meet the needs of multi-purpose forestry. This paper is based on a study to investigate public willingness to pay (WTP) for regular visual and recreational access to a wide variety of generic forest landscapes. A total of 33 forest landscapes were investigated, each of which was defined as a combination of the configuration of the planting and the landscape factors. Computer-generated images of each of these landscapes were used to underpin a series of choice experiments conducted as part of a questionnaire survey of over 400 households across Great Britain. The results confirm the importance of landscape in contributing to the social and environmental benefits provided by forests and suggests that current policies of woodland expansion may generate additional benefits especially if more woodland is located close to urban populations. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these results for forest policy across the UK.

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“…Firstly, applying the contingent valuation methodology, works as Drake (1992), Pruckner (1995) or Drake (1999) show that the willingness to pay for the landscape associated to agricultural land can be large. On this base, López et alt.…”

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Land, Environmental Externalities and Tourism Development

2004

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The opinions expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect the position of Terms of use: Documents in Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Land, Environmental Externalities and Tourism Development SummaryIn a two sectors dynamic model we analyze the process of tourism development based on the accumulation of capital (building of tourism facilities) and the reallocation of land from traditional activities to the tourism sector. The model incorporates the conflict between occupation of the territory by the tourism facilities, other productive activities and availability of cultural, natural and environmental assets that are valued by residents and visitors. We characterize the process of tourism development in two settings: the socially optimal solution and a situation where the costs of tourism expansion are external to the decision makers, where externalities on residents as well as intraindustry externalities are considered.Regarding the optimal solution, we show that it is optimal to limit tourism expansion before it reaches its maximum capacity even in a context where the economic attractiveness of tourism relative to other productive sectors rise continuously. However, in this context and when all the costs of tourism development are externalities the only limit to tourism quantitative expansion is its maximum capacity determined by the availability of land. Finally, we show that excessive environmental degradation from the future generations' point of view is not a problem of discounting the future but rather a problem of externalities that affects negatively the current and future generations.

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Agricultural landscape cultivation in Austria: An application of the CVM

Cited by 77 publications

References 19 publications

Testing for the survey mode effect on contingent valuation data quality: A case study of web based versus in-person interviews

Testing for the survey mode effect on contingent valuation data quality: A case study of web based versus in-person interviews

Assessing the Value of Forest Landscapes: A Choice Experiment Approach

Land, Environmental Externalities and Tourism Development

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