Economic value of conserving deep-sea corals in Irish waters: A choice experiment study on marine protected areas

Wattage, Premachandra; Glenn, Helen; Mardle, Simon; Rensburg, Thomas van; Grehan, Anthony; Foley, Naomi

doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2010.10.007

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“…To date there has been little application of CE within fisheries management (Wattage et al, 2011). Of notable exception are the works of Wattage et al (2011; and Aas et al (2000).…”

Section: Ce and Fisheries Managementmentioning

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Section: Ce and Fisheries Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of notable exception are the works of Wattage et al (2011; and Aas et al (2000). Wattage et al (2011) uses a CE approach to determine the economic value held by the Irish public for the conservation of deep-sea corals using MPA variant management options. Wattage et al (2005) demonstrated the applicability of CE in the evaluation of three over-riding management options and its ability to offer meaningful information to the management process.…”

Section: Ce and Fisheries Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This paper uses choice experiments (CE) to investigate some aspects of marine PES design. To date there is little application of CE within fisheries management (Wattage et al, 2011), more specifically, how restriction infrastructures may lower or induce participation by local environmental providers. In doing so this paper highlights the importance of community participation and input at the earliest stages of PES design.…”

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Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Barr

Mourato

2014

Ecological Economics

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We determine the effects of various management restrictions on adoption rates of marine Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes. Choice experiments are used in order to determine how fisher participation rates change under different marine PES programme designs. Various designs, with differing restriction rates, show different rates of adoption. However, fishers show a high utility loss associated with any move away from the current management situation, irrespective of restriction levels. This indicates that PES scheme costs may be high and creating an enabling environment could be important to reducing perceived losses, as could investment into conditional in-kind compensation mechanisms. The paper also shows choice experiments to be a useful tool in marine PES design.

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“…To date there has been little application of CE within fisheries management (Wattage et al, 2011). Of notable exception are the works of Wattage et al (2011; and Aas et al (2000).…”

Section: Ce and Fisheries Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ce and Fisheries Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ce and Fisheries Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Barr

Mourato

2014

Ecological Economics

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“…MPAs are now seen as an important tool of ecosystem-based marine spatial management that can be employed to maintain marine ecosystems in a healthy, productive and resilient condition by balancing the increasing diversity and intensity of human activities with the sea's ability to provide ecosystem services (Olsen et al, 2013). A number of empirical studies report respondents' positive willingness to pay (WTP) for establishing marine protected areas (MPA), typically with preferences for more stringent restrictions on allowed uses of these areas (Wallmo and Edwards, 2008;Gillespie and Bennett, 2010;Wattage et al, 2011;Aanesen et al, 2015).…”

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Marine trade-offs: Comparing the benefits of off-shore wind farms and marine protected areas

Karlõševa

Nõmmann

et al. 2016

Energy Economics

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Abstract:The drive to increase renewable electricity production in many parts of Europe has led to an increasing concentration of new wind energy sites at sea. This results in a range of environmental impacts which should be taken into account in a benefit-cost analysis of such proposals. In this paper, we use choice modelling to investigate the relative gains and losses from siting new windfarms off the coast of Estonia, relative to the option of creating a new marine protected area. We find that, while respondents are generally opposed to converting marine shoals to conventional wind farms and prefer the establishment of marine protected areas instead, benefits from constructing ‗environmentally-friendly' wind farms -an alternative program which is also considered by the government -are not statistically different with respect to consumers' welfare to those associated with creating a new marine protected area. Methodologically, the paper makes a contribution by showing the ability of the latent class mixed logit model to represent both within-and between-class preference heterogeneity, and thus its power to provide a more sophisticated representation of preference heterogeneity than stand-alone latent class or mixed logit approaches. The paper is also presents the first use of the latent class mixed logit model in willingness-to-pay space for environmental goods.Keywords: discrete choice experiment, off-shore wind energy, marine protected areas, willingness to pay space, latent class mixed logit, renewable energy. -We analyse the trade-offs between wind energy production and the designation of marine protected areas in Estonia.-Discrete choice modelling is used to estimate the relative welfare effects of 3 design options in two locations.-A methodological enhancement to choice modelling is introduced, namely the latent class mixed logit model in willingness to pay space.-The model shows distinct preference heterogeneity both within and between latent classes of respondents.-On average, people prefer -eco‖ windfarms to conventional windfarms or marine protected areas.

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Cold‐water coral Madrepora oculata in the eastern Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean): Historical and recent findings

Fanelli

Delbono

Ivaldi³

et al. 2017

Aquatic Conservation

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1. Cold-water coral (CWC) ecosystems are long-lived, slow-growing and fragile, which makes them especially vulnerable to physical damage. In recent decades, CWCs have been severely threatened by fisheries, hydrocarbon extraction, pollution and other human activities.2. In the Mediterranean Sea, some investigations have been carried out on CWC ecosystems, mostly focused on their distributions within the central and eastern basins. 3. Historical reports and fishermen's maps for the eastern Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean) from the 1960s document the occurrence of extensive banks of living CWC, mostly Madrepora oculata, between depths of 200 and 500 m. 4. In 2013/2014, multibeam, side scan sonar (SSS) and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) surveys were carried out in that area, specifically in the Levante Canyon, to assess the occurrence, distribution and conservation status of CWC. 5. The SSS and ROV showed numerous trawl tracks and small (10 cm high), dead, buried colonies at 300-500 m. Deeper, between 525 and 575 m, dense populations of living, 1 m high colonies of Madrepora oculata were found on the flanks of Levante Canyon. The deep sites showed colonies overturned or entangled by long-line fishing activities. 6. The discovery of new CWC banks not yet heavily damaged by fishing activities, suggests that urgent measures for conservation should be taken in the Mediterranean and worldwide. The present limitation of trawl-fishing to above 1000 m depth, established by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) in 2005, seems to be ineffective, since CWCs are mostly located at less than 1000 m depth in the Ligurian Sea. A network of high-seas/deep-sea marine protected areas (MPAs) would favour a better strategy for protecting substantial areas of CWCs. KEYWORDS cold-water coral ecosystems, Levante Canyon, Madrepora oculata, marine protected areas, Mediterranean Sea, remotely operated vehicle, seafloor mapping

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Economic value of conserving deep-sea corals in Irish waters: A choice experiment study on marine protected areas

Cited by 85 publications

References 25 publications

Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Marine trade-offs: Comparing the benefits of off-shore wind farms and marine protected areas

Cold‐water coral Madrepora oculata in the eastern Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean): Historical and recent findings

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