How Much Are Floridians Willing to Pay for Protecting Sea Turtles from Sea Level Rise?
How Much Are Floridians Willing to Pay for Protecting Sea Turtles from Sea Level Rise?
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佛罗里达人愿意支付多少费用来保护海龟免受海平面上升的影响？
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Matthew Bossick
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作者：
Ahmed Hamed;K. Madani;B. von Holle;James Wright;J. Milon;Matthew Bossick
海平面上升（SLR）给沿海地区带来了巨大的淹没风险。一些沿海筑巢物种，包括海龟物种，经历了SLR减少栖息地。条件估值法（CVM）被用来评估的经济损失的影响，SLR海龟筑巢栖息地的佛罗里达海岸，并引出值愿意支付（WTP）的中央佛罗里达居民实施某些缓解策略，这将保护佛罗里达的东海岸海龟筑巢区。使用开放式和二分选择CVM，我们抽样的居民两个佛罗里达社区：可可海滩和奥维耶多。我们估计，这两个城市的家庭保护海龟栖息地的WTP为42至57美元之间，每年5年。此外，我们试图评估受访者的人口统计数据及其对各种情况的看法对其支付意愿值的影响。调查结果包括一个受访者的年龄和个人愿意支付假设的支付意愿金额的概率之间的负相关。我们发现，一个人的支付意愿是不依赖于先验知识的影响SLR海龟栖息地。个人是否愿意为保护海龟栖息地付费的最大指标是受访者对实施保护措施的一方的可信度和效率的看法以及他们对所使用的保护方法的信心。认为海龟对他们的生活有影响的受访者也更有可能付钱。
Sea level rise (SLR) is posing a great inundation risk to coastal areas. Some coastal nesting species, including sea turtle species, have experienced diminished habitat from SLR. Contingent valuation method (CVM) was used in an effort to assess the economic loss impacts of SLR on sea turtle nesting habitats for Florida coasts; and to elicit values of willingness to pay (WTP) of Central Florida residents to implement certain mitigation strategies, which would protect Florida’s east coast sea turtle nesting areas. Using the open-ended and dichotomous choice CVM, we sampled residents of two Florida communities: Cocoa Beach and Oviedo. We estimated the WTP of households from these two cities to protect sea turtle habitat to be between $42 and $57 per year for 5 years. Additionally, we attempted to assess the impact of the both the respondents’ demographics and their perception toward various situations on their WTP value. Findings include a negative correlation between the age of a respondent and the probability of an individual willing to pay the hypothetical WTP amount. We found that WTP of an individual was not dependent on prior knowledge of the effects of SLR on sea turtle habitat. The greatest indicators of whether or not an individual was willing to pay to protect sea turtle habitat were the respondents’ perception regarding the trustworthiness and efficiency of the party which will implement the conservation measures and their confidence in the conservation methods used. Respondents who perceive sea turtles having an effect on their life were also more likely to pay.