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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Willingness of Sri Lankan Farmers to pay for a Scheme to Conserve Elephants: An Empirical Analysis	
Autores: 	Bandara,   Ranjith; Tisdell,   Clement A.	
Data: 	2009-04-13	
Ano: 	2003	
Palavras-chave: 	Agricultural pest; Agricultural insurance; Asian elephant; Economic valuation; Elephas maximus; Farmers’ wildlife attitudes; Human-elephant conflict; Wildlife conservation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Livestock Production/Industries.	
Resumo: 	This paper explores the feasibility of adopting an integrated economic approach to raise farmers’ tolerance of the presence of elephants on their farming lands. Responses to this approach were sought from a sample of farmers in the areas affected by human elephant conflict in the northwestern province of Sri Lanka. Results from a contingent valuation survey of their willingness to pay for a scheme to conserve elephants are also reported. Two separate logit regression analyses were undertaken to examine the factors that influence the farmers’ responses for the payment principle question and their opinions on the integrated economic approach. Although found that the majority of the respondents expressed their willingness to pay for the proposed scheme and supported for the implementation of the integrated approach, we have insufficient data yet to determine if their support and financial contribution would be sufficient to set up this programme and also to predict its economic viability. Nevertheless, the overall finding of this study provides an improved economic assessment of the farmers’ attitudes towards the wild elephant in Sri Lanka. At the same time the study shows that, contrary to commonly held assumptions, farmers in this developing country, do support wildlife conservation.	
Tipo: 	Working or Discussion Paper	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	ISSN: 1327-8231

http://purl.umn.edu/48954	
Relação: 	University of Queensland&gt;School of Economics&gt;Economics, Ecology and Environment Working Papers

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