Decision-Pathway Surveys: A Tool for Resource Managers

Robin Gregory, James Flynn, Stephen M. Johnson, Theresa A. Satterfield, Paul Slovic and Robert Wagner

Land Economics, 1997, vol. 73, issue 2, 240-254

Abstract: This paper introduces an experimental "decision pathways" survey technique that builds on insights from behavioral decision theory. The approach presents respondents with a set of linked questions that encourage the deliberate construction of expressed values in the course of selecting a preferred resource-management alternative. By selecting one pathway and avoiding others, important information is revealed about respondents' key trade-offs and about their reasoning processes. A general discussion of the approach is followed by the results of a 1994 survey in Ontario, Canada, of public support for a range of forest vegetation-management alternatives.

Date: 1997
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