• Disentangling the influence of knowledge on attribute non-attendance 

      Sandorf, Erlend Dancke; Campbell, Danny; Hanley, Nick (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016-09-22)
      We seek to disentangle the effect of knowledge about an environmental good on respondents' propensity to ignore one or more attributes on the choice cards in a discrete choice experiment eliciting people's preferences for increased protection of cold-water corals in Norway. We hypothesize that a respondent's level of knowledge influences the degree to which she ignores attributes. Respondents ...
    • Willingness to pay for unfamiliar public goods: Preserving cold-water coral in Norway 

      Aanesen, Margrethe; Armstrong, Claire W.; Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Falk-Andersson, Jannike; Hanley, Nick; Navrud, Ståle (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-02-17)
      The world's largest concentration of cold-water coral (CWC) is found off the Norwegian coast. Most CWC discoveries are recent, posing new challenges for Norwegian coastal and fishery authorities regarding the management of deep-sea resources. Scientific knowledge of CWC is limited, and many citizens have not even heard about them. This creates problems for the application of the stated preference ...