Using choice experiments to explore the spatial distribution of willingness to pay for rural landscape improvements

被引：110

作者：

Campbell, Danny ^{[1
]}

Hutchinson, W. George ^{[1
]}

Scarpa, Riccardo ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Queens Univ Belfast, Gibson Inst Land Food & Environm, Belfast, Antrim, North Ireland

[2] Univ Waikato, Waikato Management Sch, Hamilton, New Zealand

来源：

ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE | 2009年 / 41卷 / 01期

关键词：

CONTINGENT VALUATION; DISTANCE-DECAY; VALUES; BENEFITS; INFORMATION; MODELS; FRAMEWORK; ECONOMICS; GIS;

D O I：

10.1068/a4038

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

We report findings front a choice experiment survey designed to estimate the economic benefits of policy measures to improve the rural landscape in the Republic of Ireland. Using a panel mixed logit specification to account for unobserved taste heterogeneity we derived individual-specific willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for each respondent in the sample. We subsequently investigated the spatial dependence of these estimates. Results suggest the existence of positive spatial autocorrelation for all rural landscape attributes. As a means of benefit transfer, kriging methods were employed to interpolate WTP estimates across the whole of the Republic of Ireland. The kriged WTP surfaces confirm the existence of spatial dependence and illustrate the implied spatial variation and regional disparities in WTP for all the rural landscape improvements investigated.

引用

页码：97 / 111

页数：15

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