Valuation of Cultural and Natural Resources in North Cascades National Park: Results from a Tournament-Style Contingent Choice Survey

Robert Turner and Blake Willmarth ()
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Blake Willmarth: Department of Economics, Colgate University, http://www.colgate.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/economics

No 2014-01, Working Papers from Department of Economics, Colgate University

Abstract: We present the results of a new, tournament-style design of a contingent choice survey about management options at North Cascades National Park (NCNP). In our tournament-style survey, each respondent explicitly ranks several sets of scenarios and in addition several other rankings are implicit. Including the implicit rankings does not change our findings much, suggesting that the tournament-style format can add usefully to the data collected by a survey. We find strong evidence of nonuse values for both cultural and natural resource protection; indeed, nonuse values seem to dominate preferences even for those who have visited NCNP. We further find that respondents in general seem to value the protection of natural resources more than the protection of cultural resources, though both are valuable.

Keywords: contingent choice; tournament; cultural protection; wilderness protection; national park; nonuse values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 Q3 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01-01, Revised 2014-01-23
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