Spatial Heterogeneity in Stated Preference Valuation: Status, Challenges and Road Ahead

Valck, Jeremy De; Rolfe, John

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“…The incorporation of space within CE studies is an increasing feature of the valuation literature (e.g. Adamowicz et al 1994;Johnston et al 2002;Campbell et al 2008Campbell et al , 2009Brouwer et al 2010;Schaafsma et al 2012Meyerhoff 2013;Johnston and Ramachandran 2014;Czajkowski et al 2016a;Johnston et al 2016;Interis and Petrolia 2016;Holland and Johnston 2017;Bakhtiari et al 2018;De Valck and Rolfe 2018;Glenk et al 2019). Initial interest in the spatial aspects of environmental preferences within stated preference (SP) valuation studies was motivated by the definition of relevant markets for aggregation of estimated values (e.g.…”

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Using Individualised Choice Maps to Capture the Spatial Dimensions of Value Within Choice Experiments

Baďura

Ferrini

Burton

et al. 2019

Environ Resource Econ

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Understanding how the value of environmental goods and services is influenced by their location relative to where people live can help identify the economically optimal spatial distribution of conservation interventions across landscapes. However, capturing these spatial relationships within the confines of a stated preference study has proved challenging. We propose and implement a novel approach to incorporating space within the design and presentation of stated preference choice experiments (CE). Using an investigation of preferences concerning land use change in Great Britain, CE scenarios are presented through individually generated maps, tailored to each respondent's home location. Each choice situation is generated in real time and is underpinned by spatially tailored experimental designs that reflect current British land uses and incorporate locational attributes relating to physical and administrative dimensions of space. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first CE study to integrate space into both the survey design and presentation of choice tasks in this way. Presented methodology provides means for testing how presentation of spatial information influence stated preferences. We contrast our spatially explicit (mapped) approach with a commonly applied tabular CE approach finding that the former exhibits a number of desirable characteristics relative to the latter.

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Section: Introduction and Literature Reviewmentioning

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Using Individualised Choice Maps to Capture the Spatial Dimensions of Value Within Choice Experiments

Baďura

Ferrini

Burton

et al. 2019

Environ Resource Econ

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“…We expected Canadians to have a higher WTP for high-seas ecosystems conservation compared with those living in Norway and Scotland due to distance-decay effects. Distance decay implies that demand for a good declines with increased distance due to reasons, such as travel and time opportunity costs, the availability of substitutes, the increased search and information costs, and the feeling of moral obligation and responsibility declining with distance (De Valck & Rolfe, 2018). However, distance-decay effects vary depending on the type of value considered.…”

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Valuing high‐seas ecosystem conservation

Xuan

Armstrong

Ankamah‐Yeboah

et al. 2021

Conservation Biology

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The high seas provide a variety of ecosystem services that benefit society. There have, however, been few attempts to quantify the human welfare impacts of changes to the delivery of these benefits. We assessed the values of several key ecosystem service benefits derived from protecting ecosystems in the high seas of the Flemish Cap through choice experiments conducted in Canada, Norway, and Scotland. Rather than solely eliciting public willingness to pay, we also explored the determinants of variance in the estimates of willingness to pay. We aimed to determine how much respondents were willing to pay for high-seas ecosystems conservation, which factors influence individuals' willingness to pay, and whether individuals in Canada had a higher willingness to pay relative to those living in Norway and Scotland. This latter point captures distance-decay effects. On average, the public placed positive value on conserving high-seas ecosystems and on developing economic activities related to the exploitation and exploration of marine resources, despite a lack of awareness and familiarity with these environments. Distance-decay effects on willingness to pay were not clear. Scots had the highest willingness to pay and the Norwegians the lowest willingness to pay for all attributes, with the only exception being willingness to pay for a large increase in new jobs, in which case Canadians' willingness to pay was higher than Scots'. The public's willingness to pay was influenced by sociodemographic characteristics and their perceptions of highseas ecosystems. Our results provide evidence of the impacts of high-seas governance on human welfare and that improved governance could increase the value people place on high-seas ecosystems and the services they produce.

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“…However, when we map benefits based on per household estimates, we see the distribution is often higher in the rural areas throughout the watershed (panel B). 14 Rural areas tend to 14 Refinements could be made when modeling WTP throughout the watershed, or for use in transfer to similar watersheds, using spatial regression methods such as those discussed by Holland (2019) or De Valk andRolfe (2018). However, the focus of this paper is to provide a proof of concept for estimating the distributional receive larger per household benefits because the river sections-and the corresponding improvements-are primarily in rural areas of the watershed.…”

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Overlooked Benefits of Nutrient Reductions in the Mississippi River Basin

Parthum

Ando

2020

Land Economics

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Improvements in local surface water quality in the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) can contribute to the regional environmental goals of reducing hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. To inform estimates of the benefits of water quality policy, we use a choice experiment survey in a typical subwatershed of the MRB to estimate willingness to pay for local environmental improvements and helping to reduce hypoxia far downstream. We find that residents place large values on reduced local algal blooms, improved local fish populations and diversity, and meeting local commitments to help with the regional environmental problem.

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Spatial Heterogeneity in Stated Preference Valuation: Status, Challenges and Road Ahead

Cited by 47 publications

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Using Individualised Choice Maps to Capture the Spatial Dimensions of Value Within Choice Experiments

Using Individualised Choice Maps to Capture the Spatial Dimensions of Value Within Choice Experiments

Valuing high‐seas ecosystem conservation

Overlooked Benefits of Nutrient Reductions in the Mississippi River Basin

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