Farm households' preferences for collective and individual actions to improve water-related ecosystem services: The Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya

Mulatu, D.W.; Veen, A. van der; Oel, Pieter van

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.12.001

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“…Table 5 depicts the results of the LCM analysis with two latent groups. It found out that the respondents' income [6,36,53], duration of residence, membership in the community group [6], land ownership [53,54] and occupation were significant [55]. The group membership characteristic included farmers and non-farmers.…”

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Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Lee

Wang

2017

Sustainability

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This paper aims to build up a preference function to evaluate the public benefits of the type of agricultural farming, biodiversity, water provisions, land use type, ecotourism modes, and a monetary attribute (willingness to pay and willingness to work) associated with an ecosystem service and land use program in a forest park. This study used choice experiments to build a random utility model, analyze the average preference for the above land use attributes based on the conditional logit (CL) and used a latent class model to test the residents' heterogeneous preferences for land use planning in the forest park. We also estimated the welfare derived from various land use programs. The empirical result has shown that: (1) increasing organic farming area, increasing the surface water provision, increasing the area of custom flora, increasing the wetland area, and setting up an integrated framework for ecotourism increase the public's preference for the land use program; (2) farmer and non-farmers do not have the same land use preferences, attributes, marginal willingness to pay and willingness to work; and (3) the ecotourism development program incorporating biodiversity, organic farming, ethnobotany, and wetland area with integrated ecotourism has the highest values when compared to other land use program scenarios.

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Section: Heterogeneity Test Of the Lcm Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Lee

Wang

2017

Sustainability

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“…These studies usually estimate WTA of ES providers for enrolment in incentive-based schemes, with the underlying assumption being that providers' choices about participation depend on the specific scheme characteristics. In the past decade, choice experiments (CE), and to a lesser extent contingent valuation approaches (CV), have been extensively applied in the context of agri-environmental schemes (AES) in Europe (Horne, 2006;Espinosa-Goded et al, 2010;Christensen et al, 2011;Broch and Vedel, 2012;Beharry-Borg et al, 2013), and payments for ecosystem services schemes (PES) in the United States (Cooper, 1997;Matta et al, 2009;Peterson et al, 2015), and other parts of the World (Barr and Mourato, 2014;Mulatu et al, 2014).…”

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Protest Responses and Willingness to Accept: Ecosystem Services Providers’ Preferences towards Incentive‐Based Schemes

Villanueva

Glenk²,

Rodríguez-Entrena

2017

J Agricultural Economics

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The identification and treatment of protest responses in stated preference surveys has long been subject to debate. We analyse protest responses while investigating ecosystem services providers’ preferences for incentive‐based schemes. We use a choice experiment for olive farmers’ preferences for agri‐environmental scheme participation in southern Spain. Our two main objectives are: first, to identify and discuss a range of possible motives for protest responses that emerge in a WTA context; second, we analyse the impact on WTA estimates of censoring serial non‐participation linked to protest or high compensation requirements (very high takers). Using a random parameter logit model in WTA space, we find that the inclusion or exclusion of serial non‐participants in the analysis can have a significant impact on marginal and total WTA estimates. Based on the findings, the paper makes recommendations on how to reduce the incidence of protest responses through survey design, regarding the identification of protesters as opposed to very high takers, and regarding the treatment of both groups of respondents for WTA estimation.

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“…We find that about two thirds (67%) of sample households can be categorized as initially Figure 1: Purchase of intervention stoves, by preference class (treated households only) farmers' demand for soil fertility management or other ecosystem service enhancements (Lambrecht et al, 2013;Mulatu et al, 2014). Failure to adequately account for perceptions of costs and benefits, and especially those that relate to taste aspects that are usually unobserved, may therefore lead to systematic errors in projections of the demand for, and outcomes obtained from, behavior change efforts (Orgill et al, 2013;Whittington et al, 2012).…”

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Preferences and the Effectiveness of Behavior-Change Interventions: Evidence from Adoption of Improved Cookstoves in India

Jeuland¹,

Pattanayak²,

Tan-Soo³

et al. 2020

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Econom

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Preference heterogeneity can influence behavior in economically significant ways, thereby influencing the effectiveness of environmental policies or interventions. We test this hypothesis in the context of efficient cooking technology in India. We use stated preference methods to first characterize household tastes for various features of a more efficient cooking technology. We then relate these typically unobserved preferences to households' adoption decisions during an experiment that allowed them to choose between two alternatives with different features. Stated preferences help predict actual adoption: households initially classified as uninterested are less likely to purchase and use any new technology, while relative distaste for pollution is linked to selection of a cleaner technology. Because of this influence on adoption behaviors, preference heterogeneity has important implications for how environmental policies can impact various health and development outcomes.

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Farm households' preferences for collective and individual actions to improve water-related ecosystem services: The Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya

Cited by 36 publications

References 44 publications

Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Protest Responses and Willingness to Accept: Ecosystem Services Providers’ Preferences towards Incentive‐Based Schemes

Preferences and the Effectiveness of Behavior-Change Interventions: Evidence from Adoption of Improved Cookstoves in India

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