The valuation of forest carbon services by Mexican citizens: the case of Guadalajara city and La Primavera biosphere reserve

Evaluating the Effects of a Minimalist Deliberative Framework on the Willingness to Participate in a Payment for Ecosystem Services Program

“…Embedding is reduced in deliberation by providing sufficient time and multiple perspectives by which to consider questions of scope and tradeoff [12]. Deliberative groups can be especially useful when dealing with challenging welfare measures such as willingness to accept compensation, where discussion and deliberation can reduce strategic over-bidding and protest bidding [14,18,[32][33][34][35].…”

“…There is evidence that improved knowledge and information about the good or service in question meaningfully changes aggregate preferences-not just individual positions, but the aggregate distribution of preferences would be different on many issues if all respondents were better informed [5,9,11,12,14,18,22,29,35,36]. Traditional stated preference surveys give an overview of preferences as is; deliberation also offers the chance to examine preferences after a minimum threshold of knowledge is obtained.…”

“…Most notably, past deliberative valuation studies have had restricted sample sizes when compared to other stated preference methodologies, due to the high cost per participant and limited effectiveness of large deliberative groups. This has led to concerns about representation and the ability of deliberative valuation to reflect the preferences of the broader community [15][16][17][18][19]. The time investment required of participants in deliberation has also led to problematic sample compositions, with the systematic underrepresentation of a number of social and economic groups [19][20][21][22].…”

What can deliberative approaches bring to the monetary valuation of ecosystem services? A literature review

“…More recently studies are now explicitly focusing on the application of DMV techniques for the valuation of ecosystem services (e.g. Atkinson et al 2012;Balderas Torres et al 2012;Christie et al 2012), as the ecosystem services approach has become mainstream (exemplified in initiatives like the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity -TEEB). This paper distinguishes from previous studies by examining DMV literature to assess how deliberative approaches combined with monetary valuation methods have been utilised to explicitly determine the value of ecosystem services.…”

Modelling land management for ecosystem services

“…In the final paper, Balderas Torres et al (2013) similarly relate contingent valuation of willingness to reduce carbon emissions at household level with a wide range of household attributes, including socio-economic conditions, environmental awareness, risk perception and ethical/citizenship attitudes. Their findings show differentiation of willingness to pay for conservation of the local La Primavera Biosphere Reserve in Guadalajara (Mexico) triggered by different levels of perceived co-benefits derived from the forest by respondents.…”