Value of river restoration when living near and far. The Atoyac Basinin Puebla, Mexico

Abstract

On analysing data from a Contingent Valuation (CV) survey to restore the Atoyac River Basin in Puebla, Mexico, we found that households obtain differentiated benefits due to their condition of closeness to or distance from the river, which are in turn often associated with conditions of vulnerability to water pollution and poverty. Our approach was to estimate Willingness to Pay (WTP) for restoration of the Atoyac River that crosses the Puebla State, using models for two population groups: those residing nearby and those living farther away. As 2019, Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua Open Access bajo la licencia CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Re‐meander, rewet, rewild! Overwhelming public support for restoration of small rivers in the three Baltic Sea basin countries

“…Therefore, large and highly significant WTP for restoration of natural riverine wetland vegetation and for re‐meandering of the riverbeds indicates that there are large and significant positive benefits associated with restoration of small rivers across the wide gradient of socio‐economic contexts. This finding is in line with other recent contributions from European countries (e.g., Bliem & Getzner 2012; Grazhdani 2013; Logar & Brouwer 2018; Rayanov et al 2018), and elsewhere in the world (e.g., Li et al 2014; Vásquez & de Rezende 2018; Khan et al 2019; Soto‐Montes de Oca & Ramirez‐Fuentes 2019), which contemplate rewilding or restoration of the historically human‐transformed riverine ecosystems and recovery of their functions and services.…”