Using virtual environments to improve the realism of choice experiments: A case study about coastal erosion management

Matthews, Yvonne; Scarpa, Raffaele; Marsh, Dan

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2016.08.001

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“…Therefore, CEM can better solve the problem of comparing profit and loss between the multiple attributes of ecosystem services, and it can reveal public preferences for each eco-functional attribute of ecosystem services [34]. Thus, CEM has been widely used for non-market valuation, including species conservation [35][36][37][38][39], wetland recovery [40][41][42][43][44], ecotourism preferences [45][46][47][48][49][50], tourists' preferences for land, the environmental functions of national parks [21,[39][40][41]51,52], and the exploration of methods for altering specific ecosystem services to affect economic benefits [34,[53][54][55][56][57][58].…”

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Economic Valuation of Green Island, Taiwan: A Choice Experiment Method

Chen

2019

Sustainability

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The evaluation of ecological security and ecosystem services is now a core issue in the field of natural and environmental resources. Quantifying the economic value of island ecosystem services can inform policy decisions that affect the island and help justify expenditures on ecosystem service improvements. This study investigates the preferences of residents and tourists regarding Green Island and estimates willingness-to-pay (WTP) values for island ecosystem services using a choice experiment. The results indicate significant differences between the preferences of residents and tourists regarding island environmental resources. Therefore, based on the multiple attributes and ecosystem services, this study formulated three assessment schemes: “environmental protection”, “recreational development”, and “integrated operation and management”. Based on our analysis of the problems reflected in the aforementioned valuation models, we recommend that policy makers refer to environmental attribute preferences to create statements or advertisements targeting relevant audiences when planning island development. This paper contributes to the literature by demonstrating how the economic valuation of island ecosystem services can help design and target island conservation policies in order to maximize welfare.

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Economic Valuation of Green Island, Taiwan: A Choice Experiment Method

Chen

2019

Sustainability

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“…between the attributes of interest and the treatments under evaluation (De Magistris et al, 2013;Bazzani et al 2016;Matthews et al 2017;Gilmour et al 2019). As discussed in Matthews et al (2017), different pooled models can be specified depending on the assumptions underlying the scale factor 8 and the expected shifts in WTP across treatments. In this application, we expect the marginal WTP for irradiated beef to be the same in the Control and Video treatments (H2), higher in the VideoP and VideoN treatments as compared to the Video treatment (H3 and H5), and lower in the VideoN treatment as compared to the Video treatment (H4).…”

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Does information on food safety affect consumers' acceptance of new food technologies? The case of irradiated beef in South Korea under a new labelling system and across different information regimes

Caputo

2020

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Consumer aversion to new food technologies may be partly explained by the gap between the problem that the technology solves and what consumers actually understand about the food technology. This study assesses how accepting consumers are of food irradiation when exposed to prior information about food safety-related issues. Using a hypothetical discrete choice experiment, this study also explores consumer demand for a new food irradiation labelling system in South Korea under different information on food irradiation (positive, negative, and positive and negative). The results indicate that Korean consumers have a negative perception of irradiated foods and that they fail to link the use of food irradiation as a vehicle to solve food safety issues, even with the new version of the irradiated food label. However, providing consumers with information about food safety-related issues alongside with the benefits implied by the use of food irradiation resulted in more general acceptance of food irradiation. Furthermore, we conclude with a discussion of the relevant implications for policymakers, academics and food industry professionals.

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“…Respondents can identify appropriate alternative plans in accordance with their preferences and avoid bias in assessment through choice sets in different scenarios [ 26 ]. Given these advantages, CEM has been widely applied for the assessment of non-market value in recent years, including studies on wildlife conservation [ 27 , 28 ], wetland restoration [ 29 , 30 ], ecotourism preferences [ 31 , 32 ], coastal areas [ 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 ], national parks [ 37 , 38 ], and ecosystem services [ 39 , 40 , 41 ]. Further, Diafas et al employed CEM to examine ecosystem changes in rural communities and the efficiency of ecosystem preservation [ 42 ].…”

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“…In view of this, scholars have started combining applications of VR and CEM. Matthews et al demonstrated various situations of coastal erosion using VR and employed CEM to exemplify the efficiency of coastal protection by tourist inflow [ 40 ]. Rid et al used VR to illustrate a view of houses and their building styles while applying CEM to estimate consumers’ preferences and weigh future development directions [ 64 ].…”

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The Construction and Validation of a Sustainable Tourism Development Evaluation Model

Chen

2020

IJERPH

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As climate change, food crises, sustainable development, and ecological conservation gain traction, the revival of traditional fishing villages has become an important governmental policy for Taiwan. To reduce cognitive bias, the choice experiment method was applied to construct an attribute function in fishing village tourism coupled with virtual reality headsets. Conditional logit and random parameter logit models were employed to estimate tourism utility functions. Moreover, a latent class model was employed to determine whether hetxerogeneous preferences regarding fishing village travel existed. The sampling sites were distributed across the Dongshi area. In total, 612 tourists and 170 local residents were interviewed. After incomplete questionnaires were removed, 816 valid questionnaires remained, representing 95.83% of the total questionnaires. Older residents and residents with shorter histories of education were inclined to increase land development and utilization by reducing natural landscapes; tourists preferred preserving landscapes and preventing land development. Residents with more education believed that local landscape imagery was essential. Tourists who were more educated, with high incomes, and those who were older believed that a selling platform incorporating local industries and products within the villages would be attractive for other tourists.

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Using virtual environments to improve the realism of choice experiments: A case study about coastal erosion management

Cited by 72 publications

References 54 publications

Economic Valuation of Green Island, Taiwan: A Choice Experiment Method

Economic Valuation of Green Island, Taiwan: A Choice Experiment Method

Does information on food safety affect consumers' acceptance of new food technologies? The case of irradiated beef in South Korea under a new labelling system and across different information regimes

The Construction and Validation of a Sustainable Tourism Development Evaluation Model

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