Respondent Uncertainty and Ordering Effect on Willingness to Pay for Salt Marsh Conservation in the Brest Roadstead (France)

Voltaire, Louinord; Donfouet, Hermann Pythagore Pierre; Pirrone, Claudio; Larzillière, Agathe

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.02.029

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“…CVM has limitations, however, some of which are associated with any survey (e.g. the method of survey administration, question ordering and respondent certainty) (Voltaire et al, 2017). Specific to CVM, respondents may overstate their WTP (Little & Berrens, 2004; Murphy et al, 2005).…”

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Multi‐species, multi‐country analysis reveals North Americans are willing to pay for transborder migratory species conservation

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Migratory species often provide ecosystem service benefits to people in one country while receiving habitat support in other countries. The multinational cooperation that could help ensure continued provisioning of these benefits by migration may be informed by understanding the economic values people in different countries place on the benefits they derive from migratory wildlife. We conducted contingent valuation surveys to estimate the willingness of 3733 respondents from Canada, the United States and México to invest in conservation for two disparate migratory species, the northern pintail duck Anas acuta and the Mexican free‐tailed bat Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana. With zero‐inflated mixed‐effects negative binomial regression (explaining 87% of the variation in willingness to pay for conservation), we found that respondents from each nation, after controlling for both household income and per capita national Gross Domestic Product, were willing to invest in conservation in other countries. This willingness to pay for conservation, even when respondents knew that funds would be used to support benefits accruing primarily in other countries, demonstrates the potential for support of multinational conservation policies and programmes that direct resources to locations where the most critical habitat is located, rather than where the funding is generated. These findings could be used to support the development or expansion of new and existing international conservation programmes for migratory species. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Multi‐species, multi‐country analysis reveals North Americans are willing to pay for transborder migratory species conservation

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“…However, the current survey design does not allow us to test for the mid-point/centering bias and we acknowledge this limitation. This bias could be mitigated using the classic and interval payment card (CIPC) format (Voltaire et al, 2017). The CIPC still addresses the uncertainty in CVM but integrates two options: Option A and Option B that are presented simultaneously to respondents.…”

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“…The payment ladder was used as the elicitation format (Hanley et al, 2009;Mahieu et al, 2014;Soeteman et al, 2017;Voltaire et al, 2017;Whittington et al, 2008). It was noted that respondents could be uncertain about their WTP and therefore find it difficult to express it as a single value.…”

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Economic valuation of setting up a social health enterprise in urban poor-resource setting in Kenya

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Mohamed

Otieno

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Social Science & Medicine

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The failure of the market and government to provide quality healthcare services have been the motivation to set up social health enterprise. However, the value for money associated with setting up a social health enterprise in sub-Sahara African countries has been relatively unexplored in the literature. The study presents the first empirical estimates of the mean willingness-to-pay (WTP) for setting up a social health enterprise that will simultaneously run a health center and provide health insurance scheme in an urban resource-poor setting and explores whether the benefits outweigh the costs. The contingent valuation method is used to estimate the mean WTP for the health insurance scheme proposed by the social health enterprise in Viwandani slum (Nairobi, Kenya). The survey was conducted between June and July 2018 on 300 households. We find that the feasibility of setting up a social health enterprise could be promising with 97 percent of respondents willing to pay about US$ 2 per person per month for a scheme that would provide quality healthcare services. More importantly, setting up the social health enterprise will yield a positive net profit, and investors could expect US$ 1.11 in benefits for each US$ 1 of costs of investment in setting up the social health enterprise. We, therefore, conclude that this health policy in this urban resource-poor setting could be a viable solution to reach the neglected urban households in the Kenyan slums.

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“…This is widely adopted in the literature for estimating the economic value of forest ecosystem services. Molina et al [43] analysed the value of the landscape in an area in the south of Spain, Voltaire et al [46] determined the WTP for the conservation of a salt marsh in France, [47] applied CVM to estimate the value of nature conservation in Finland and [12] estimated the economic value of forest ecosystem services in three counties in China.…”

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Mapping the Recreational Value of Coppices’ Management Systems in Tuscany

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In recent decades the growing interest in forested areas has led to a higher level of appreciation and consideration regarding the various benefits and services provided by forests. Despite this, when it comes to acknowledging their economic value and their capacity to produce income, the production of timber seems to be the main or even the only function that is considered. However, by adopting a sustainable forest management approach, the value related to non-market forest functions could also be considered. The present paper aims to quantify the potential income related to the recreational value of coppice forest by considering three different management systems: traditional coppice, active conversion to high forest and the natural evolution of forest. In order to do so, a contingent valuation method was used, and 248 forest users were surveyed in the region of Tuscany, Italy. The surveys included a revised price-list method, and the results obtained showed the existence of willingness to pay (WTP) for the maintenance of forests. Users showed a strong preference for conversion to high forest, while natural evolution was the least preferred management option. People’s perception on this matter was also assessed based on their specific location, by georeferencing all of the respondents’ answers: considering this, it was observed that belonging to a municipality located in or close to the mountains (i.e., mountain and natural municipalities) influenced the users’ WTP to maintain natural evolution.

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Respondent Uncertainty and Ordering Effect on Willingness to Pay for Salt Marsh Conservation in the Brest Roadstead (France)

Cited by 20 publications

References 41 publications

Multi‐species, multi‐country analysis reveals North Americans are willing to pay for transborder migratory species conservation

Multi‐species, multi‐country analysis reveals North Americans are willing to pay for transborder migratory species conservation

Economic valuation of setting up a social health enterprise in urban poor-resource setting in Kenya

Mapping the Recreational Value of Coppices’ Management Systems in Tuscany

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