Estimation of the public benefits of urban water supply improvements in Ethiopia: a choice experiment

Influence of sustainable hospitality supply chain management on customers’ attitudes and behaviors

“…Furthermore, customers may be willing to pay a premium if they consider the company's actions as value adding actions that can bring benefits or returns to them (Tarfasa and Brouwer, 2013). However, in this study, the social dimension actions focus more on enhancing the welfare of employees, communities, suppliers and governments, instead of only customers, through providing extra benefits, establishing long-term relationship and so on.…”

“…For example, during the hiring process, companies can develop strategies to recruit local talents who will deliver outstanding service to customers. Also, providing ongoing training to employees can improve the quality of service delivery process , which can ultimately increase customer loyalty and willingness to pay a premium (Tarfasa and Brouwer, 2013). Another good example of social dimension actions is to develop strategies to support local communities.…”

Water Ecosystem Services in Northern Australia—How Much Are They Worth and Who Should Pay for Their Provision?

“…A common approach for the last 40 years, and sometimes the only way of providing economic value of environmental goods, is to estimate people’s willingness-to-pay (WTP) for these goods [15]. One of the more sophisticated methods, choice experiments (CE), is now starting to be applied to revealing the value for ecosystem services to people based on their stated preferences in hypothetical situations [16], [17], [18]. In Australia, this method has been used extensively to assess river ecosystems [19], [20], [21], [22], revealing people’s stated WTP for favorable ecosystem services and their willingness-to-accept (WTA) compensation for unfavorable ecosystem services.…”

Using a choice experiment to estimate the social benefits from improved water supply services

“…Despite the increasing popularity of CE methodology in water resources management (Birol and Koundouri 2008), relatively few studies have focused on public preferences for water supply services, worldwide (Haider and Rasid 2002;MacDonald et al 2003;AbouAli and Carlsson 2004;Hensher et al 2005;Tarfasa and Brouwer 2013) and particularly in Europe (Willis et al 2005). Specifically, Willis et al (2005) used a stated CE model to estimate the benefits to water company customers of changes across several water service factors (e.g.…”