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dc.contributor.authorBui, Bich Xuân
dc.contributor.authorArmstrong, Claire W.
dc.contributor.authorAnkamah-Yeboah, Isaac
dc.contributor.authorHynes, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorNeedham, Katherine
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-08T11:10:16Z
dc.date.available2021-07-08T11:10:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-16
dc.description.abstractThe high seas provide a variety of ecosystem services that benefit society. There have, however, been few attempts to quantify the human welfare impacts of changes to the delivery of these benefits. We assessed the values of several key ecosystem service benefits derived from protecting ecosystems in the high seas of the Flemish Cap through choice experiments conducted in Canada, Norway, and Scotland. Rather than solely eliciting public willingness to pay, we also explored the determinants of variance in the estimates of willingness to pay. We aimed to determine how much respondents were willing to pay for high-seas ecosystems conservation, which factors influence individuals’ willingness to pay, and whether individuals in Canada had a higher willingness to pay relative to those living in Norway and Scotland. This latter point captures distance-decay effects. On average, the public placed positive value on conserving high-seas ecosystems and on developing economic activities related to the exploitation and exploration of marine resources, despite a lack of awareness and familiarity with these environments. Distance-decay effects on willingness to pay were not clear. Scots had the highest willingness to pay and the Norwegians the lowest willingness to pay for all attributes, with the only exception being willingness to pay for a large increase in new jobs, in which case Canadians’ willingness to pay was higher than Scots’. The public's willingness to pay was influenced by sociodemographic characteristics and their perceptions of high-seas ecosystems. Our results provide evidence of the impacts of high-seas governance on human welfare and that improved governance could increase the value people place on high-seas ecosystems and the services they produce.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBui BX, Armstrong C, Ankamah-Yeboah I, Hynes S, Needham K. Valuing High Seas Ecosystem Conservation. Conservation Biology. 2021en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1893260
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cobi.13720
dc.identifier.issn0888-8892
dc.identifier.issn1523-1739
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/21848
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.journalConservation Biology
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/ATLAS/678760/?/A Trans-AtLantic Assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based Spatial management plan for Europe//en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480en_US
dc.titleValuing High Seas Ecosystem Conservationen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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