The Economic Value of Viewing Migratory Shorebirds on the Delaware Bay: An Application of the Single Site Travel Cost Model Using On-Site Data

Edwards, Peter; Parsons, George R.; Myers, Kelley H.

doi:10.1080/10871209.2011.608180

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“…Wild birds have been the subject of economic valuation studies for decades [1] , [2] . Direct economic values to humans [3] include being hunted for food or sport [4] , [5] , pest control [6] or as objects of tourism [7] , [8] . However, birds also play less tangible roles that increase the well-being of those who encounter them [9] .…”

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Threatened Bird Valuation in Australia

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Threatened species programs need a social license to justify public funding. A contingent valuation survey of a broadly representative sample of the Australian public found that almost two thirds (63%) supported funding of threatened bird conservation. These included 45% of a sample of 645 respondents willing to pay into a fund for threatened bird conservation, 3% who already supported bird conservation in another form, and 15% who could not afford to pay into a conservation fund but who nevertheless thought that humans have a moral obligation to protect threatened birds. Only 6% explicitly opposed such payments. Respondents were willing to pay about AUD 11 annually into a conservation fund (median value), including those who would pay nothing. Highest values were offered by young or middle aged men, and those with knowledge of birds and those with an emotional response to encountering an endangered bird. However, the prospect of a bird going extinct alarmed almost everybody, even most of those inclined to put the interests of people ahead of birds and those who resent the way threatened species sometimes hold up development. The results suggest that funding for threatened birds has widespread popular support among the Australian population. Conservatively they would be willing to pay about AUD 14 million per year, and realistically about AUD 70 million, which is substantially more than the AUD 10 million currently thought to be required to prevent Australian bird extinctions.

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“…Similarly, Edwards et al (2011) and Chae et al (2012) found a negative coefficient for the income variable. The negative beta coefficient suggests that the demand for goods would shift inwards followed by an increase in the income of the visitors.…”

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Economic Valuation Using Travel Cost Method (Tcm) in Kilim Karst Geoforest Park, Langkawi, Malaysia

Matthew¹,

Shuib²,

Ramachandran³

et al. 2019

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is a special conservation area within a Permanent Forest Reserve (PFR), consisting of limestone landscape, an extensive mangrove forest system, beaches, coastal wetlands and islands. However, the limestone, forest reserve and mangrove areas have been identified as environmentally sensitive, and are under threat by development activities. Currently, there is a lack of information on the economic benefits of the geoforest park, in terms of services. A demand model of international visitors to the Kilim Karst Geoforest Park (KKGP) was derived and compared the benefit estimated using both travel cost and consumer surplus adjustment techniques. The Travel Cost Method (TCM) has been employed to derive the demand model, whilst the concept of consumer surplus was used for value determination and comparison. The findings showed that the benefit estimated using travel cost adjustments, based on satisfaction attained, is €288,000,000, and number of hours spent in the park is €141,000,000, which was greater than that for the consumer surplus adjustment based on satisfaction attained €278,640,000 and number of hours spent €123,840,000. The study proposed the travel cost adjustment technique findings rather than the consumer surplus adjustment technique, since it was based on specific KKGP model estimation. In conclusion, the findings on the monetary value of the geoforest park will alert the community regarding the importance of conserving KKGP.

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“…Average per hectare economic benefits for publicly accessible land are greatest for CFA land ($7.67/ha), followed by state‐owned land ($6.04/ha), and federally owned land ($2.64/ha). We also examined the effects of different assumptions regarding the percentage of wage rate and driving costs, as these assumptions will affect the economic benefits estimates detailed above (e.g., English and Bowker , Layman et al , Bin et al , Edwards et al ). We find that instead of using a third of the wage rate, using 25% of wage rate reduces economic benefits by 7% when considering all publicly accessible hunting land in Michigan, whereas using 40% of the wage rate increases economic benefits by 6%.…”

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Economic benefits of publicly accessible land for ruffed grouse hunters

Knoche

Lupi

2013

J Wildl Manag

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Although numerous studies have focused on estimating economic benefits associated with big game hunting experiences, economic valuation efforts examining small game hunting have largely been neglected. This is especially surprising with respect to hunting grouse, a family of widely distributed upland game birds targeted by about 800,000 hunters in 2011. Furthermore, despite efforts by federal and state agencies directed at improving and increasing public land for recreational hunting purposes, a dearth of studies exist regarding the economic benefits of public land to hunters. Using the travel cost method and data from a 2008 survey of Michigan ruffed grouse hunters, we examine relationships between hunting site choice and publicly accessible hunting land. We find that federally owned land, state-owned land, and publicly accessible, privately owned Commercial Forest Act (CFA) land are positive predictors of hunter site selection (P < 0.001). Given this relationship, we then estimated the economic benefits of different types of publicly accessible land to ruffed grouse hunters by examining the willingness of hunters to incur increasing travel costs to hunt in counties with greater amounts of publicly accessible land. We estimated the economic benefits of publicly accessible hunting land for ruffed grouse hunters in Michigan to be over $20 million in 2008, with economic benefits of CFA land comprising about $6.9 million of this annual total. Estimating the economic benefits of publicly accessible hunting land for outdoor recreationists provides a useful metric for policy makers to use in evaluating how changes in the amount and nature of publicly accessible hunting land affects these individuals. Ó 2013 The Wildlife Society.

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The Economic Value of Viewing Migratory Shorebirds on the Delaware Bay: An Application of the Single Site Travel Cost Model Using On-Site Data

Cited by 27 publications

References 19 publications

Threatened Bird Valuation in Australia

Threatened Bird Valuation in Australia

Economic Valuation Using Travel Cost Method (Tcm) in Kilim Karst Geoforest Park, Langkawi, Malaysia

Economic benefits of publicly accessible land for ruffed grouse hunters

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