Preventing land loss in coastal Louisiana: Estimates of WTP and WTA

Petrolia, Daniel R.; Kim, Tae-Goun

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.040

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“…The marginal effect shows that an increase of 10,000 RMB (1 RMB ≈ 0.17 USD) in net household income decreases participation probability by three percentage points. This result differs from the positive impact reported by Ghosh and Mondal [17] and Petrolia and Kim [23]. This finding may be attributed to the fact that farmers with higher net household incomes tend to be non-cropping households and their main income sources are non-agricultural activities (the correlation between household net income and non-agricultural income is about 0.97).…”

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“…For example, while Söderqvist [15] shows that age has no impact on wetland restoration decisions, Petrolia and Kim [23] find a positive impact, and Ghosh and Mondal [17] and Zhang et al [20] find a negative impact. Our results also suggest that age has no significant influence on farmers' willingness to participate in wetland restoration in our sample.…”

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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in Wetland Restoration: Evidence from China

2016

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Abstract:The Poyang Lake wetland has been at the center of discussion in China's wetland restoration initiative because of the extent of its ecosystem degradation. The purpose of this paper is to model farmers' willingness to participate in wetland restoration and analyze factors that will affect farmers' participation decisions. A household survey was conducted among 300 randomly selected farm-households in the Poyang Lake area, Jiangxi Province. A binary probit regression model is applied to investigate the impacts of farmer demographics, farm characteristics, and farmers' perceptions of wetland and wetland restoration policies on willingness to participate in wetland restoration. Results show that farmers' education level, household migrant members, number of dependents, household net income, farm type, and distance to urban areas have significant effects on farmers' participation in wetland restoration. Farmers' perceptions about the ecological values and benefits of wetlands and their knowledge about wetland restoration policies do not appear to significantly influence farmers' willingness to participate. A gap is identified between awareness of the importance of wetland restoration and willingness to take actions to restore wetlands. Farm-households tend to weigh personal needs and economic conditions when making participation decisions.

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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in Wetland Restoration: Evidence from China

2016

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“…There is a vast literature examining individual participation decisions in environmental incentive programs (see, for example, Defrancesco et al., ; Dhakal, et al., ; Herman, ; Hynes and Garvey, ; Ma et al., , Pattison et al., ). Some of the studies in the literature identify factors affecting decisions to participate in wetland creation or restoration (Dedah, ; Söderqvist, ; Yu and Belcher, ; Zhang et al., ), while others address the farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) or willingness to accept (WTA) for wetlands services (Ambastha et al., ; Lant and Roberts, ; Loomis, ; Whitehead and Blomquist, ; Petrolia and Kim, ; Kim and Petrolia, ). Despite the scale and the serious consequences of Poyang Lake wetland destruction in China, it received little attention in the literature.…”

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Farmer's willingness to participate in wetland restoration: a hurdle model approach

Wei

Guan

Zhu

2016

Agricultural Economics

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Due to a severe degradation of the wetland ecosystem in China, great efforts have been devoted to promote farmers' willingness to participate in wetland restoration. As the decision-making body, farmer's willingness to participate is critical to wetland restoration. It is thus important to understand factors that will affect farmers' willingness to participate and their levels of participation. Using a survey sample of 1,009 farmers from the Poyang Lake wetland area in China, this article applies a hurdle model to empirically investigate the factors affecting individual farmers' sequential decisions on whether or not to participate and how much land to enroll in wetland restoration. Results suggest that farmers' information and knowledge about wetland restoration compensation policy is crucial in determining whether or not to participate in the first stage. Meanwhile, individual farmer characteristics and household attributes play different roles in influencing farmers' participation decisions and acreage enrollment decisions. This study provides useful insights to identify effective policy instruments to motivate participation and ensure success of such policies.JEL classifications: C34, Q18, Q57

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