Journal
JOURNAL OF FOREST ECONOMICS
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 329-344Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfe.2012.05.002
Keywords
Choice experiments; Natura 2000 network; Welfare measure; Native tree species; Biodiversity; Basque Country
Funding
- Department of Education of the Basque Government [IT-334-07]
- IHOBE (Basque Environmental Agency) [OTRI 2008.0101]
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One of the main problems that public institutions face in the management of protected areas, such as the European Natura 2000 network, is determining how to design and implement sustainable management plans that account for the wide range of marketed and non-marketed benefits they provide to society. This paper presents an application of a stated preference valuation approach aimed at evaluating the social preferences of the population of the Basque Country, Spain, for the key attributes of a regional Natura 2000 network site. According to our results, individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) is higher for attributes associated with non-use values (native tree species and biodiversity conservation) than for attributes associated with use values (agricultural development and commercial forestry). The paper concludes that management policies related to Natura 2000 network sites should account for both for the importance of non-use values and the heterogeneity of the population's preferences in order to minimize potential land use conflicts. (C) 2012 Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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