Benefit transfer with limited data: An application to recreational fishing losses from surface mining
| Autor: | Brenda Rashleigh, Lisa Wainger, Marisa J. Mazzotta, J. Todd Petty, Samantha Sifleet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Resource (biology) business.industry Environmental resource management Fishing Spatial participation model Recreational fishing Trip distribution Missing data Meta-analysis Mountaintop removal mining Surface mining Environmental Science(all) Environmental protection Spatial ecology Ecosystem services Environmental science Social ecological model business Benefit transfer Mountaintop-removal mining General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Ecological Economics. 119:384-398 |
| ISSN: | 0921-8009 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.09.018 |
| Popis: | The challenges of applying benefit transfer models to policy sites are often underestimated. Analysts commonly need to estimate site-specific effects for areas that lack data on the number of people who use the resource, intensity of use, and other relevant variables. Here, we address issues of applying transfer functions to sites that have sparse or missing data. We present options for estimating data to apply meta-regression models (MRMs) in ways that are scale-appropriate and sensitive to local conditions. Using a case study of the potential lost welfare to freshwater anglers as a result of mountain top coal mining within West Virginia, we integrate: 1) an empirical ecological model of fish community changes; 2) an MRM that relates changes in catch rates to changes in anglers' utility; and 3) a spatial participation analysis that maps trip distribution using multiple survey datasets. We evaluate two scenarios: partial (20%) and full use of existing mine permits. Our conservative estimates of annual welfare loss are $120,500 for the partial scenario and $627,800 for the full scenario, due to changes in recreational fishing catches. These results are sensitive to catch rate assumptions and socio-demographic characteristics that varied widely depending on the spatial scale of measurement. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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