Dealing with Uncertainty in Public Preferences for Rural Development Policies: A Contingent Valuation Survey

Marcos Dom�nguez-Torreiro and Mario Soli�o
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Regional Studies, 2015, vol. 49, issue 4, 555-567

Abstract: Dom�nguez-Torreiro M. and Soli�o M. Dealing with uncertainty in public preferences for rural development policies: a contingent valuation survey, Regional Studies . Rural development programmes are currently envisaged as a means to foster the provision of a broad range of non-commodity outputs emanating from multifunctional rural environments. This paper presents a contingent valuation survey that analyses individuals' perceptions of and willingness to pay for the implementation of a rural development programme in Cantabria, Spain. Uncertainty in individuals' preferences is explicitly acknowledged and introduced into the analytical framework. For that purpose, a comparison is made between the open-ended and the multiple-bounded uncertainty elicitation formats. The expectation of a positive welfare change constitutes a sound argument in favour of regional rural development policies.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2013.783694

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