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Exploring the willingness to pay for forest ecosystem services by residents of the Veneto Region

Bio-based and Applied Economics

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Title Exploring the willingness to pay for forest ecosystem services by residents of the Veneto Region
 
Creator Gatto, Paola; Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-forestali
Università di Padova
Vidale, Enrico
Secco, Laura
Pettenella, Davide
 
Subject Payments for Ecosystem Services; choice experiments; multi-nomial logit; latent class models
Q23; Q56
 
Description Forests produce a wide array of goods, both private and public. The demand for forest ecosystem services is increasing in many European countries, yet there is still a scarcity of data on values at regional scale for Alpine areas. A Choice Experiment survey has been conducted in order to explore preferences, uses and the willingness of the Veneto population to pay for ecosystem services produced by regional mountain forests. The results show that willingness to pay is significant for recreation and C-sequestration but not for biodiversity conservation, landscape and other ecosystem services. These findings question the feasibility of developing market-based mechanisms in Veneto at present and cast light on the possible role of public institutions in promoting policy actions to increase the general awareness of forest-related ecosystem services.
 
Publisher Bio-based and Applied Economics
Bio-based and Applied Economics
 
Contributor European Union - Newforex project
 
Date 2013-12-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/11151
http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/download/11151/13608
10.13128/BAE-11151
 
Source Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 21-43
Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 21-43
2280-6172
2280-6180
 
Language eng
 
Relation 10.13128/BAE-11151