Non-users’ trade-off between natural scenery, water quality, ecological functions and biodiversity conservation: a way to preserve wetlands

Sara Kaffashi (), Mad Nasir Shamsudin, Alias Radam, Khalid Abdul Rahim and Mohd Rusli Yacob

Environment Systems and Decisions, 2013, vol. 33, issue 2, 251-260

Abstract: Abstract The inclusion of both non-use values and values placed by non-users provide more reliable results about the real values of wetlands. A choice experiment method was conducted to estimate the willingness to pay for environmental conservation in non-users’ communities adjacent to the Shadegan International Wetland (SIW) in Iran. A random parameter logit (RPL) model was developed to derive the marginal value and compensating surplus of the respondents for five attributes of the non-market values of SIW. The trade-off between five different wetland attributes showed that water quality improvement and biodiversity conservation were the most highly valued attributes. The results demonstrated that about 66 % of non-users were willing to donate money for the contribution in SIW conservation, suggesting that non-users have the potential to contribute to SIW conservation programs.

Keywords: Non-users; Choice experiment; Random parameter logit; Shadegan International Wetland; Compensating surplus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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