Participatory Environmental Education and Willingness to Pay for River Basin Management: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria
Participatory Environmental Education and Willingness to Pay for River Basin Management: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria
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参与式环境教育和支付流域管理费用的意愿：来自尼日利亚的经验证据
作者：
K. Urama;I. Hodge
本文探讨了参与的作用，作为一种工具，提高个人的看法和环境价值观使用的测试-重测实验在东南部尼日利亚。两个相同的或有价值的实验穿插参与式研讨会，旨在让受访者在框架和形成的估值方案。计量经济学分析发现，参与式教育显着发展个人的污染问题的看法，并增加了他们的流域管理计划的WTP的规模和精度。随着正规教育水平的提高，观念的变化程度下降，这表明受教育程度较低的受访者更有可能持有较弱的偏好。(JEL问题51、问题25）
This paper examines the role of participation as a tool for improving individuals’ perceptions and environmental values using a test-retest experiment conducted in south-eastern Nigeria. Two identical contingent valuation experiments were interspersed by participatory workshops designed to involve respondents in framing and forming the valuation scenario. Econometric analyses found that participatory education significantly developed individuals’ perceptions of pollution problems and increased the magnitude and precision of their WTP for a river basin management scheme. The extent of changes in perceptions declined with increasing levels of formal education, suggesting that less educated respondents are more likely to hold weakly formed preferences. (JEL Q51, Q25)