Marine Sites and the Drivers of Wellbeing: Ecosystem vs. Anthropic Services

Barbara Cavalletti, Matteo Corsi () and Elena Lagomarsino
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Barbara Cavalletti: Department of Economics, University of Genoa, 16126 Genoa, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 22, 1-14

Abstract: Coastal sites offer a range of services that contribute to human wellbeing. While some of the services are entirely human-made (e.g., parasol and sunbed rental), others are produced thanks to the contribution of marine ecosystems (e.g., water clarity). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the preferences of a sample of beachgoers for these two categories of services that policymakers have to balance when designing management strategies for coastal sites. We consider a marine site in the north of Italy that partially falls within the boundaries of a protected area but that is characterized by a medium-to-high level of anthropization. The results of a discrete choice experiment show that in the current state of things, the ecosystem services proposed for the sample have, on average, a higher marginal utility, suggesting that actions increasing those services have a larger effect on well-being.

Keywords: marine and coastal ecosystems; discrete choice experiments; ecosystem services; conditional logit; mixed logit; latent class logit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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