To restore or not? A valuation of social and ecological functions of the Marais des Baux wetland in Southern France

Westerberg, Vanja; Lifran, Robert; Olsen, Søren Bøye

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.07.005

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“…Several other studies also found positive relationship between these variables. For example, positive impact of income on WTP is witnessed in studies by Westerberg et al, 2010;Ghosh and Mondal, 2012;Birol et al, 2006;Othman et al, 2004;Birol et al, 2011;Hanley et al, 2006;Oglethorpe and Miliadou, 2000;Bliem et al, 2012 andNuva et al, 2011.The positive effect of membership in NGO on WTP also reported by Oglethorpe and Miliadou 2000;Pattison et al 2011. The negative interaction between number of people per household with the level 3 of natural scenery indicates that large families have lower WTP compare to small size families. Our results were similar to some other previous studies (Perez-Verdin et al, 2011;Hammitt et al, 2001;Pattison et al, 2011).…”

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Users and Non-users of Wetland Area; Willingness to Pay and Demand Elasticity

Kaffashi¹,

Shamsudin²,

Radam³

et al. 2015

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The present paper uses error component model to elicit respondents preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for wetland conservation. The main objective of this research was to estimate the difference between preferences and WTP of respondents who are users of wetland and those who consider as non-users. The results of structural equation modelling (SEM) and error component logit model (ECM) showed significant difference between WTP and attitudinal factors of two groups. The results of SEM indicated that respondents' management concerns, income, and their employment status had positive and direct effect on their WTP. Results of ECM showed that user model is slightly better predictor of respondents' choice. The non-market values of the wetland for users are estimated approximately US$ 3.67 per household per month meanwhile this value for nonusers was about US$ 2.80. The overall results indicated that familiarity and previous knowledge on wetland has significant effect on respondnets' perception, attitudes and WTP. Results also showed that demand for better conservation and management of wetland is relatively price inelastic. This study conclude that improvement in Shadegan International Wetland management will bring higher utility for both users and nonusers society and hence will be supported by them.

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Section: Results Of the Choice Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Users and Non-users of Wetland Area; Willingness to Pay and Demand Elasticity

Kaffashi¹,

Shamsudin²,

Radam³

et al. 2015

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“…The distribution of the final CE questionnaire started in October of 2015. Based on the above discussion, seven characteristics were included as CE attributes in the design: agricultural farming type [24,25], biodiversity [6,16,26], water provision [12], land use type [6,10,13,26,27], ecotourism mode [13], WTP, and WTW [6,13,26,28], as well as the levels of the attributes in relation to ecosystem services, as shown in Table 1. Agricultural production provides nutrition and health for human society [29].…”

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Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

Lee

Wang

2017

Sustainability

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This paper aims to build up a preference function to evaluate the public benefits of the type of agricultural farming, biodiversity, water provisions, land use type, ecotourism modes, and a monetary attribute (willingness to pay and willingness to work) associated with an ecosystem service and land use program in a forest park. This study used choice experiments to build a random utility model, analyze the average preference for the above land use attributes based on the conditional logit (CL) and used a latent class model to test the residents' heterogeneous preferences for land use planning in the forest park. We also estimated the welfare derived from various land use programs. The empirical result has shown that: (1) increasing organic farming area, increasing the surface water provision, increasing the area of custom flora, increasing the wetland area, and setting up an integrated framework for ecotourism increase the public's preference for the land use program; (2) farmer and non-farmers do not have the same land use preferences, attributes, marginal willingness to pay and willingness to work; and (3) the ecotourism development program incorporating biodiversity, organic farming, ethnobotany, and wetland area with integrated ecotourism has the highest values when compared to other land use program scenarios.

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“…Yet, elsewhere in the world, some studies attempted this type of reasoning. Westerberg et al (2010) offer insight into public preferences over the range of possible future landscape configurations for the Marais des Baux wetland in southern France. To attain this objective, the authors use a random parameter logit model by taking account of unobserved and observed preference heterogeneity.…”

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How to Restore Forest Areas in a Smallholder Agriculture-Dominated Country?

Moussa¹

2017

JMS

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This study deals with ways of addressing more effectively the problems of forest restoration in a smallholder agriculture-dominated area like the southwest Côte d'Ivoire. An empirical estimation based on a probit model is used to analyze the farmer decisions concerning their eventual participation to the national program of forest development based on a policy of large-scale reforestation.The results show that the main explicative variables of smallholders' adhesion to this project are agricultural training, ethnic group, access to credit, the age of the head of household and the household's residence area. Contrary to all expectations, some variables such as literacy, out-farm income, and the status of landowner and whole-time farmer do not explain the decision of smallholder.

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To restore or not? A valuation of social and ecological functions of the Marais des Baux wetland in Southern France

Cited by 57 publications

References 31 publications

Users and Non-users of Wetland Area; Willingness to Pay and Demand Elasticity

Users and Non-users of Wetland Area; Willingness to Pay and Demand Elasticity

Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

How to Restore Forest Areas in a Smallholder Agriculture-Dominated Country?

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