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| Marsh, Dan; Baskaran, Ramesh. |
| Water pollution is widely considered to be one of the most important environmental issues facing New Zealand. Waikato region residents have reported that water pollution is easily their most important environmental concern in each of four attitude surveys conducted by Environment Waikato. Technical and regulatory mechanisms to reduce water pollution, especially non-point source pollution from agriculture are the focus of an intensive research effort both in New Zealand and internationally. This work should assist farmers and policy makers to identify the most cost effective options for achieving any given improvement in water quality. Research described in this paper aims to complement existing research projects by developing appropriate methodology for... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Water Quality; Non Market Valuation; Choice Modelling. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47951 |
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| Baskaran, Ramesh; Cullen, Ross; Colombo, Sergio. |
| Most ecosystem services (ES) are neither priced nor marketed. Resource managers may fail to take into account degradation of unpriced services in their resource management decisions. Being able to estimate values for ES is fundamental to designing policies to induce resource users to provide (or improve) ES at levels that are acceptable to society. Conducting ecosystem valuation via non-market methods is costly and time consuming. Benefit Transfer (BT) using choice modeling (CM) is a potentially cost-effective method for valuing ES by transferring information from existing valuation studies (and study sites) to a target area of interest (policy sites). The prime objective of this paper is to examine the validity of BT and hence whether it is feasible to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Benefit transfer; Choice modeling; New Zealand winegrowing; Ecosystem services. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48189 |
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