Public attitudes and values for wetland conservation in New South Wales, Australia

Streever, William; Callaghan-Perry, M; Searles, Andrew; Stevens, Thomas H.; Svoboda, P.

doi:10.1006/jema.1998.0224

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“…In some cases aggregate values are estimated for all wetlands located within a certain administrative region, such as Minnesota (Sip et al, 1998), South Dakota (Johnson, 1984), New South Wales (Streever et al, 1998) or all mangrove wetlands in Indonesia (Burbridge and Koesoebiono, 1984). Although the majority of the valuation studies so far has comprehensively focused on large sites, small wetlands are also represented.…”

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The Economic Value of Wetland Conservation and Creation: A Meta-Analysis

Ghermandi¹,

Bergh

Brander

et al. 2008

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The rationale for conservation and creation of wetlands stems from the recognition of both their ecological and economic values. This paper examines the welfare impacts of goods and services provided by wetlands. We collected 385 estimates of the economic value of 181 natural and man-made wetlands from 167 studies worldwide. The resulting database is less biased towards North America than previous reviews of the literature. The relative importance of characteristics of the valuation study, of the wetland site, and of the socio-economic and geographical context is estimated by means of a metaregression analysis of wetland values. Provision of amenities, flood control and storm buffering, and water quality improvement are the most highly valued wetland services. The relevance of the socio-economic and geographical context clearly emerges from the analysis and, in particular, the proximity to other wetland sites is negatively correlated with valuations. An analysis of the effect of environmental stress on wetland value shows that the latter increases with stress from human development activities and uses. In addition to the basic meta-regression model, the influence of authorship effects and of the geographic regions is examined by means of a multi-level approach. A second extended meta-regression model including cross-effects shows that the valuations of specific services vary according to the type of wetland producing them. Terms of use: Documents in

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The Economic Value of Wetland Conservation and Creation: A Meta-Analysis

Ghermandi¹,

Bergh

Brander

et al. 2008

SSRN Journal

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“…He used double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation and found the average household willingness-to-pay for conservation of the wetlands was AU$31.15 per annum. Streever et al (1998) estimated the willingness-to-pay value and examined attitudes towards wetland conservation in New South Wales. Respondents to a questionnaire survey indicated a median willingness-to-pay of AU$100 per household per year for 5 years.…”

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Capitalized amenity value of urban wetlands: a hedonic property price approach to urban wetlands in Perth, Western Australia*

Tapsuwan¹,

Ingram²,

Burton³

et al. 2009

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Up to 60 per cent of potable water supplied to Perth, Western Australia, is extracted from the groundwater system that lies below the northern part of the metropolitan area. Many of the urban wetlands are groundwater-dependent and excessive groundwater extraction and climate change have resulted in a decline in water levels in the wetlands. In order to inform decisions on conserving existing urban wetlands, it is beneficial to be able to estimate the economic value of the urban wetlands. Applying the Hedonic Property Price approach to value urban wetlands, we found that distance to the nearest wetland and the number of wetlands within 1.5 km of a property significantly influence house sales price. For a property that is 943 m away from the nearest wetland, which is the average distance to the wetland in this study, reducing the wetland distance by 1 m will increase the property price by AU$42.40. Similarly, the existence of an additional wetland within 1.5 km of the property will increase the sales price by AU$6976. For a randomly selected wetland, assuming a 20 ha isolated circular wetland surrounded by uniform density housing, the total sales premium to surrounding properties was estimated to be around AU$140 million (AU$40 million and AU$230 million).

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“…Also, the outcome of decision-making is affected considerably by the perceptions and attitudes of participants in the process (White, 1966). There is growing empirical evidence indicating that assessment of local responses toward protected areas is a crucial step in gathering information that can be incorporated into decision-making processes and lead to people-park conflict mitigation (Newmark et al, 1993;Fiallo and Jacobson, 1995;Ruchi, 1998;Streever et al, 1998;Gillingham and Lee, 1999;Trakolis, 2001;Jim et al, 2002;Rao et al, 2003). On the other hand, local people's perceptions are determined by their values and frames of reference (ecological, economic and ethnological/culture) which lead to differences in needs, perceptions and attitudes along the lines of their personal attributes.…”

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Local people's perceptions as decision support for protected area management in Wolong Biosphere Reserve, China

Chen

Lü

et al. 2006

Journal of Environmental Management

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This paper examines local people's knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards Wolong Biosphere Reserve (WBR) and its management policies. Pertinent data were collected through a questionnaire survey and group discussions. This study revealed that local people's perceptions were affected by many factors, including education, gender, residence location, household size and acreage of land owned. Although most respondents had limited knowledge about WBR because of their absence in WBR management, they held a positive attitude towards WBR. An in-depth analysis of their attitudes and perceptions showed that two potential conflicts might affect biodiversity conservation and protected area management. One of them was the imbalance between the limited cropland holding and the oversupply of the labor force, and the other one was the increase in electricity price versus the decrease in economic incentives for the Natural Forest Protection Project. The study also revealed that relocation was considered unacceptable to most respondents. However, those residing far from the main road were willing to relocate more than those near the main road. Based on our studies, some recommendations are given for improvement of WBR management. q

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Public attitudes and values for wetland conservation in New South Wales, Australia

Abstract: This study, modeled after a study conducted in the New

Cited by 43 publications

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The Economic Value of Wetland Conservation and Creation: A Meta-Analysis

The Economic Value of Wetland Conservation and Creation: A Meta-Analysis

Capitalized amenity value of urban wetlands: a hedonic property price approach to urban wetlands in Perth, Western Australia*

Local people's perceptions as decision support for protected area management in Wolong Biosphere Reserve, China

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