Valuing improved wetland quality using choice modeling

Morrison, Michael A.; Bennett, Jeff; Blamey, Russell K.

doi:10.1029/1999wr900020

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“…In Finland, a survey sent to landowners and peat industry professionals emphasized an increasing need for discussions between the stakeholders (Selin 1999). To our knowledge, CE has not been used to value the benefits of peatlands, whereas in wetlands, where commercial timber and peat production are not relevant land use options, CE studies have focused solely on management options to maintain the quality and extent of wetlands (Morrison et al 1999, Carlsson et al 2003, Birol et al 2006, Birol and Cox 2007, Westerberg et al 2010). …”

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Preferences of Local People for the Use of Peatlands: the Case of the Richest Peatland Region in Finland

Tolvanen¹,

Juutinen²,

Svento³

2013

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ABSTRACT. We analyze the potential for socioeconomically sustainable peatland use by investigating conflicting interests, revealing trade-offs that people are willing to accept, and studying whether opinions are dependent on socioeconomic and demographic factors. Opinions toward five forms of peatland use and seven peatland ecosystem services were surveyed in Northern Ostrobothnia in northern Finland in 2011. Choice experiment (CE) was used to reveal trade-offs in land use preferences, and groups of respondents were identified using the latent class model (LCM). We identified three classes of respondents in which environmentalists showed a high preference toward the cessation of peat production and increase of peatland restoration, the production-oriented class preferred an increase in timber and peat production areas, and the current use supporters agreed on the present land use policy. However, all respondent classes agreed on the increase of nature protection and the present level of timber production and disagreed on the cessation of restoration. The CE revealed that environmentally minded people who are likely to consider the indirect use values and existence values important are less willing to make trade-offs between ecosystem services than those who emphasize direct use values. Because peatland restoration occurs in commercially unproductive peatlands, it improves both the direct use and existence values without reducing provisioning services of peatlands. Therefore, restoration is commonly accepted by the public, in contrast to management options that involve clear trade-offs between ecosystem services. We conclude that the understanding of preferences and trade-offs can enhance sustainable land use planning. It may be unrealistic, however, to expect a solution that all interest groups would completely accept.

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Preferences of Local People for the Use of Peatlands: the Case of the Richest Peatland Region in Finland

Tolvanen¹,

Juutinen²,

Svento³

2013

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“…A common technique is to design hypothetical (improvement or preservation) scenarios on wetland quality status. Morrison et al (1999) evaluate the trade-off between the benefits of losing jobs and of preserving wetlands. Carlsson et al (2003) estimated the benefits of the biodiversity of animals and plants in a wetland.…”

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Valuing the recreational benefits of wetland biodiversity

Okuyama¹

2015

Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv.

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Loss in biodiversity of wetlands is a worldwide problem in maintaining the ecosystem of the earth. Thus, environmental valuation studies have performed benefit calculations to show the value of biodiversity. Here, few studies use the revealed preference methods due to the lack of data on wetland biodiversity. To solve this issue, this paper presented an approach to create data using expert judgment. Data on total numbers of representative species (TNRS) which were selected by experts was employed as indicators of the biodiversity of wetlands, and data on wetland area (AREA) were also employed for analysis. Data on travel behaviors to eleven Ramsar wetlands in Hokkaido, Japan were applied in the repeated discrete choice model. The results indicate that the approach of this paper would be applicable for estimating the relationship between individual behaviors and the biodiversity of wetlands. Next, benefit calculations were performed under the hypothesis that the values of AREA and TNRS improves by 10, 50, and 90%. The benefits of increasing wetland areas ranged from JPY 1 (USD 0.01) per year to JPY 14,901 (USD 182.19) per year. Those of improving wetland biodiversity ranged from JPY 44 (USD 0.54) per year to JPY 3,190 (USD 39.00) per year. Two types of wetlands were revealed by calculations. The first type includes wetlands in which the benefits of AREA are larger than those of TNRS. The second type includes wetlands in which the benefits of TNRS are larger than those of AREA, and the feature of the second type is that the wetland area is smaller than the first type. It means that large wetlands should be protected, and the small one with high biodiversity. Consequently, the research on wetlands species is required. The result indicates that benefits are connected to recreational services of wetland ecosystems.

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“…Combining field studies and hydrological modelling generally helps to test hypotheses about the functioning of a wetland as well as quantifying the importance of groundwater in the ecosystem (Hunt et al, 1996;Tchamen and Kahawita, 1998;Morrison et al, 1999;Gasca-Tucker and Acreman, 2000;Su et al, 2000;Weng, 2000). Improving the understanding of how wetlands function and describing and quantifying their buffer role (during floods or in nitrate retention and elimination for example), will help authorities to manage such ecosystems in a sustainabledevelopment manner.…”

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Characterising and modelling groundwater discharge in anagricultural wetland on the French Atlantic coast

Weng

Giraud

Fleury

et al. 2003

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Interaction between a wetland and its surrounding aquifer was studied in the Rochefort agricultural marsh (150 km²). Groundwater discharge in the marsh was measured with a network of nested piezometers. Hydrological modelling of the wetland showed that a water volume of 770,000 m 3 yr -1 is discharging into the marsh, but that this water flux essentially takes place along the lateral borders of the wetland. However, this natural discharge volume represents only 20% of the artificial freshwater injected each year into the wetland to maintain the water level close to the soil surface. Understanding and quantifying the groundwater component in wetland hydrology is crucial for wetland management and conservation.

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Valuing improved wetland quality using choice modeling

Cited by 128 publications

References 24 publications

Preferences of Local People for the Use of Peatlands: the Case of the Richest Peatland Region in Finland

Preferences of Local People for the Use of Peatlands: the Case of the Richest Peatland Region in Finland

Valuing the recreational benefits of wetland biodiversity

Characterising and modelling groundwater discharge in anagricultural wetland on the French Atlantic coast

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