Using Internet Surveys to Estimate Visitors’ Willingness to Pay for Coral Reef Conservation in the Kenting National Park, Taiwan
| Autor: | Nathaniel Maynard, Je-Liang Liou, Lauriane Ribas-Deulofeu, Pierre-Alexandre Château |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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lcsh:Hydraulic engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Coral Geography Planning and Development 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science 01 natural sciences Biochemistry non-market value lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes Willingness to pay lcsh:TC1-978 Ecosystem 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Water Science and Technology Valuation (finance) geography Contingent valuation lcsh:TD201-500 geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry National park Environmental resource management Coral reef Value (economics) coral reefs valuation contingent valuation method internet survey business |
| Zdroj: | Water, Vol 11, Iss 7, p 1411 (2019) Water Volume 11 Issue 7 |
| ISSN: | 2073-4441 |
| Popis: | Without appropriate conservation action, coral reefs globally continue to degrade, causing declines in economic value. Therefore, their local conservation and quantifying its benefits become increasingly important. However, accurately measuring these values remains expensive or complicated. Leveraging digital survey tools, an interdisciplinary on-line survey was created to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for coral reef conservation using pictures and ecological data. Using the contingent valuation method we estimate current values as well as changes in value due to restoration or degradation for coral ecosystems in the Kenting National Park (KNP) in Taiwan. Results suggest that conserving degraded coral reef ecosystems leads to larger gains in value than healthier ones. Average WTP estimates a non-market economic value of 680 million US$ per year for the whole KNP marine area. Despite potential self-reporting bias and limits on sample size, these values appear consistent with similar studies and suggest future economic sampling strategies for KNP. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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