Do focus groups and individual interviews reveal the same information for natural resource valuation?

Kaplowitz, Michael D.; Hoehn, John P.

doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(00)00226-3

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“…Learning about perceptions requires adapted survey protocols [51][52][53][54][55], which purposely combine closed questions in order to establish typologies and open questions in order to analyze the spontaneous perceptions of interviewees. The questionnaire design took into account this recommendation.…”

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“…It combined open (spontaneous perceptions) and closed questions (ranking according to a pre-determined scale [56]). Following Kaplowitz and Hoehn [52], the open questions, placed at the beginning of the questionnaire, enabled perceptions to be identified without mentioning the notion of ecosystem services. The interviewees were then asked to rank the 10 services they valued most from a reference list.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Local Knowledge of Pond Fish-Farming Ecosystem Services: Management Implications of Stakeholders’ Perceptions in Three Different Contexts (Brazil, France and Indonesia)

Mathé

Rey‐Valette

2015

Sustainability

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This article addresses ecosystem service perceptions in the case of pond fish-farming systems in Brazil, France and Indonesia. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment vision suggests a more integrated reflection on environmental policies with greater adaptability to local knowledge and the development of social learning processes, which tend to promote more sustainable changes in behavior and practice than do sanctions. This study considers a part of the identification of ecosystem services. It shows that perceptions differ with the context, and found few differences depending on the type of stakeholders (fish farmers and other stakeholders). From a methodological viewpoint, this paper opens up new prospects for valuing ecosystem services through a perception study.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local Knowledge of Pond Fish-Farming Ecosystem Services: Management Implications of Stakeholders’ Perceptions in Three Different Contexts (Brazil, France and Indonesia)

Mathé

Rey‐Valette

2015

Sustainability

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“…Social interaction is envisioned to have at least two consequences for value assessment. First, when little or no information exists about a particular issue, and when people are unfamiliar with the valuation task, the consultation with other people may be useful in constructing a judgement (Kaplowitz and Hoehn 2001;Svedsäter 2003). Second, other people's judgements are important in order to develop and validate opinions about issues that the individual is already familiar with.…”

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Ambivalent statements in contingent valuation studies: inclusive response formats and giving respondents time to think

Svedsäter

2007

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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A recent concern in the valuation literature is the uncertainty respondents feel when posed with willingness-to-pay questions for environmental amenities in hypothetical market scenarios. Using a multiple-bounded discrete-choice format, the results indicate that respondents become less ambivalent when allowed considerable time to think about the valuation task before a response is elicited. In particular they tend to reduce the reported willingness to pay associated with low certainty of paying, hence resulting in more conservative welfare estimates. Implications for the application of environmental valuation techniques are discussed.

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“…The collection of interview data was made possible through this ongoing information exchange partnership. When collected at strategic points in time, primary qualitative data provide perspectives unique to each organization's water management adaptation strategies and barriers [76][77][78]. …”

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Adapting to Variable Water Supply in the Truckee-Carson River System, Western USA

Sterle

Singletary

2017

Water

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Abstract:In snow-fed inland river systems in the western United States, water supply depends upon timing, form, and amount of precipitation. In recent years, this region has experienced unprecedented drought conditions due to decreased snowpack, exacerbated by exceptionally warmer winter temperatures averaging 3-4 • C above normal. In the snow-fed Truckee-Carson River System, two sets of interviews were conducted as part of a larger collaborative modeling case study with local water managers to examine local adaptation to current drought conditions. A comparative analysis of these primary qualitative data, collected during the fourth and fifth consecutive years of continued warmer drought conditions, identifies shifts in adaptation strategies and emergent adaptation barriers. That is, under continuous exposure to climate stressors, managers shifted their adaptation focus from short-term efforts to manage water demand toward long-term efforts to enhance water supply. Managers described the need to: improve forecasts and scientific assessments of snowmelt timing, groundwater levels, and soil moisture content; increase flexibility of prior appropriation water allocation rules based on historical snowpack and streamflow timing; and foster collaboration and communication among water managers across the river system. While water scarcity and insufficient water delivery infrastructure remain significant impediments in this arid region, climate uncertainty emerged as a barrier surrounding adaptation to variable water supply. Existing prior appropriation based water institutions were also described as an adaptation barrier, meriting objective evaluation to assess how to best modify these historical institutions to support dynamic adaptation to climate-induced water supply variability. This study contributes to a growing body of research that assesses drought adaptation in snow-fed inland river systems, and contributes a unique report concerning how adaptation strategies and barriers encountered by local water managers change over time under continuous exposure to climate stressors. These locally identified adaptation strategies forward a larger collaborative modeling case study by informing alternative water management scenarios simulated through a suite of hydrologic and operations models tailored to this river system.

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Do focus groups and individual interviews reveal the same information for natural resource valuation?

Cited by 158 publications

References 16 publications

Local Knowledge of Pond Fish-Farming Ecosystem Services: Management Implications of Stakeholders’ Perceptions in Three Different Contexts (Brazil, France and Indonesia)

Local Knowledge of Pond Fish-Farming Ecosystem Services: Management Implications of Stakeholders’ Perceptions in Three Different Contexts (Brazil, France and Indonesia)

Ambivalent statements in contingent valuation studies: inclusive response formats and giving respondents time to think

Adapting to Variable Water Supply in the Truckee-Carson River System, Western USA

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