Accounting for negative, zero and positive willingness to pay for landscape change in a national park

Hanley, N. , Colombo, S., Kriström, B. and Watson, F. (2009) Accounting for negative, zero and positive willingness to pay for landscape change in a national park. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 60(1), pp. 1-16. (doi: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2008.00180.x)

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Abstract

In contingent valuation, despite the fact that many externalities manifest themselves as costs to some and benefits to others, most studies restrict willingness to pay to being non-negative. In this paper, we investigate the impact of allowing for negative, zero and positive preferences for prospective changes in woodland cover in two UK national parks, the Lake District and the Trossachs. An extended spike model is used to accomplish this. The policy implications of not allowing for negative values in terms of aggregate benefits are also investigated, by comparing the extended spike model with a simple spike making use of only zero and positive bids, and a model which considers positive bids only. We find that ignoring negative values over-states the aggregate benefits of a woodland planting project by up to 44%.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Hanley, Professor Nicholas
Authors: Hanley, N., Colombo, S., Kriström, B., and Watson, F.
College/School:College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
Journal Name:Journal of Agricultural Economics
Publisher:Wiley
ISSN:0021-857X
ISSN (Online):1477-9552
Published Online:05 January 2009

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