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dc.contributor.authorAanesen, Margrethe
dc.contributor.authorArmstrong, Claire W.
dc.contributor.authorCzajkowski, Mikolaj
dc.contributor.authorFalk-Andersson, Jannike
dc.contributor.authorHanley, Nick
dc.contributor.authorNavrud, Ståle
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-18T12:50:07Z
dc.date.available2016-03-18T12:50:07Z
dc.date.issued2015-02-17
dc.description.abstractThe 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 methods to capture their economic value, and very few such studies have been conducted. To fill this gap, we designed a discrete choice experiment, which was implemented in a valuation workshop setting in order to derive estimates of participants' willingness to pay (WTP) for increasing the protection of CWC. Despite the fact that marine industries such as oil/gas and fisheries could be adversely affected by CWC protection, this did not reduce the respondents' willingness to pay for further protection. The possibility that CWCs play an important role as habitat for fish was the single most important variable to explain respondents' WTP for CWC protection. The survey revealed a high degree of preference heterogeneity, while we found an average WTP for CWC protection in the range of EUR 274–287.en_US
dc.descriptionAccepted manuscript version. Published version at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.02.007>http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.02.007</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationEcological Economics 2015, 112:53-67en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1240185
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.02.007
dc.identifier.issn0921-8009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/9041
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8599
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectCold-water coralen_US
dc.subjectWillingness to payen_US
dc.subjectUnfamiliar public gooden_US
dc.subjectDiscrete choice experimenten_US
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Samfunnsøkonomi: 212en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212en_US
dc.titleWillingness to pay for unfamiliar public goods: Preserving cold-water coral in Norwayen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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