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Journal Title:
Journal of Environmental Management
Personal Author:
Wallmo, Kristy ; Lew, Daniel K.
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NOAA Program & Office:
NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
Description:
It is generally acknowledged that willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for environmental goods exhibit some degree of spatial variation. In a policy context, spatial variation in threatened and endangered species values is important to understand, as the benefit stream from policies affecting threatened and endangered species may vary locally, regionally, or among certain population segments. In this paper we present WTP estimates for eight different threatened and endangered marine species estimated from a stated preference choice experiment. WTP is estimated at two different spatial scales: (a) a random sample of over 5000 U.S. households and (b) geographically embedded samples (relative to the U.S. household sample) of nine U.S. Census regions. We conduct region-to-region and region-to-nation statistical comparisons to determine whether species values differ among regions and between each region and the entire U.S. Our results show limited spatial variation between national values and values estimated from regionally embedded samples, and differences are only found for three of the eight species. More variation exists between regions, and for all species there is a significant difference in at least one region-to-region comparison. Given that policy analyses involving threatened and endangered marine species can often be regional in scope (e.g., ecosystem management) or may disparately affect different regions, our results should be of high interest to the marine management community.
Keywords:
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Environmental Engineering General Medicine Management, Monitoring, Policy And Law Waste Management And Disposal
Source:
Journal of Environmental Management, 179, 38-46
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.04.053
ISSN:
0301-4797
Format:
PDF
Publisher:
Elsevier BV
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
Grant no. NA10NMF4340183
License:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Rights Information:
CC BY-NC-ND
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Library
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urn:sha256:ab9a12d269bad1c457c145d015b3550486a9db862cc830a6f201f6f39cccc67a
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/59510/noaa_59510_DS1.pdf
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