Journal
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
Volume 69, Issue 3, Pages 632-640Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.09.014
Keywords
Invasive species; Protection; Delaying the inevitable; Survey; Contingent valuation
Funding
- National Science Foundation [DEB 02-709 13698]
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A survey was designed to elicit donations for delaying inevitable aquatic invasions of inland water bodies within a respondent's region. Surveys were distributed throughout the United States. Assuming all aquatic species groups invade simultaneously, our results suggest that the average person was willing to make a one-time payment of $48 to delay low to high impacts one year (aggregates to nearly $4 billion for all U.S. households). By comparison, the federal government currently (2006) invests $394 million annually for all invasive species (aquatic and terrestrial) prevention and early detection/rapid response. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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