Prioritizing Ecosystem Service Protection and Conservation Efforts in the Forest Plantations of the Red Hills

Rebecca Moore

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2013, vol. 42, issue 01, 26

Abstract: We use a stated choice experiment to estimate household willingness-to-pay for a program providing incentives to private forest land owners in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia and northwest Florida. The estimated values of various program attributes inform a landscape analysis that identifies high-priority private forest land that could be targeted for conservation incentives. Households report an increase in utility from the program when it explicitly identifies a target ecosystem-service priority. Also, inclusion of stated preference values in the prioritization plan highlights a potential scarcity effect that has important implications for conservation targeting.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.148409

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