Valuation of First Nations peoples' social, cultural, and land use activities using life satisfaction approach

Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin Zheng

Forest Policy and Economics, 2016, vol. 72, issue C, 46-55

Abstract: Social, Cultural, and Land Use (SCLU) activities of First Nations peoples of Canada are valued using a two-layer multi-domain – Financial, Health, Housing, and SCLU – model of life satisfaction. The model was estimated using primary data and 2SLS and 3SLS·The SCLU domain contributed more than twice than the Financial domain to general satisfaction (GS). SCLU activities, such as trapping days, gathering days, traditional diets, quality of time spent on gathering and trapping, and satisfaction with land laws made significant contributions to GS. In terms of elasticities, the quality of time spent on gathering was the most important contributing factor.

Keywords: Aboriginal; Canada; Domain satisfaction; Ecosystem services; Forest; First Nations; Life satisfaction; And valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2016.06.014

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