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- Bostedt, Göran, 1966-, et al.
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A note of benefits and costs of adjusting forestry to meet recreational demands
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Elsevier. - 1104-6899 .- 1618-1530. ; 12:1, s. 75-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Economic studies concerning environmental functions of forests are often partial in the sense that they focus on either benefits or costs. In other words, benefit/cost analyses indicating whether it is economically motivated to change forestry to make it compatible with environmental demands are relatively rare. This benefit/cost analysis deals with the forest as recreation environment, where benefit estimates from a study conducted in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden, are compared with cost estimates from another study in the same county. It is shown that adjustments of forest management to meet recreational demands do largely affect both benefits and costs, and that the results are sensitive to how soon the effects on the recreation environment occur after the adjustments of forest management.
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- Boman, Mattias
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To pay or not to pay for biodiversity in forests - What scale determines responses to willingness to pay questions with uncertain response options?
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Now Publishers. - 1104-6899. ; 15, s. 79-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In applied contingent valuation research, the so-called multiple-bounded dichotomous Choice (MBDC) willingness to pay (WTP) question Format allows respondents to express uncertainty about their valuations. Response data from Such questions are typically treated as ordinal. since the response scale is based on rank-ordered verbal expressions. Their probabilistic nature in combination with a review of empirical Survey results suggest, however, that WTP response data based on verbal expressions Of uncertainty reflect an underlying unmeasured variable at the ratio scale level. The implications were empirically analysed using data From a recent contingent valuation Study on forest land protection for biodiversity Purposes. The verbal response categories to the MBDC (WTP) question were recoded as probabilities. The effects of different probability recodings were analysed when the distribution Of uncertain WTP was assumed to be known. Taking uncertainty into account by means of the underlying probability of acceptance will make contingent Valuation results more meaningful and transparent for both analysts and users. (c) 2008 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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