Environmental attitudes and place identity as determinants of preferences for ecosystem services
Environmental attitudes and place identity as determinants of preferences for ecosystem services
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106600
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发表时间：
2020-08-01
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7
通讯作者：
Martin-Ortega, Julia
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作者：
Faccioli, Michela;Czajkowski, Mikolaj;Martin-Ortega, Julia
陈述偏好法经常被用来衡量人们对生态系统服务的支付意愿。然而，这些技术也因遵循简化的方法而受到批评，这种方法往往忽略了复杂的心理和社会学因素的作用，例如一般的环境态度和地方身份信仰。通过离散选择实验，我们以苏格兰泥炭地恢复为例，探讨了一般环境态度和地方认同感知对WTP的影响。我们的研究通过对WTP的决定因素提供更细致的描述，并通过探索和绘制估计福利措施的分布，为现有文献提供了补充。研究结果表明，环境态度越积极、对泥炭地和苏格兰的依恋程度越高的人，其泥炭地恢复的WTP越高。然而，受访者之间存在差异，这取决于他们的社会人口状况和地理区域。更好地了解生态系统服务偏好的异质性有助于指导更有效的政策设计，并使政策制定者了解项目评估中考虑公平因素的计划政策的分配影响。
Stated preference methods are frequently employed to measure people's willingness to pay (WTP) for ecosystem services. However, these techniques are also criticized for following a simplified approach, which often ignores the role of complex psychological and sociological factors, such as general environmental attitudes and place identity beliefs. By means of a discrete choice experiment exercise, we explored the influence of general environmental attitudes and place identity perceptions on WTP, taking peatland restoration in Scotland as a case study. Our research adds to the existing literature by providing a more nuanced picture of the determinants of WTP and by exploring and mapping the distribution of the estimated welfare measures. Our results, obtained from the estimation of hybrid choice models, show that people with more positive environmental attitudes and greater attachment to peatlands and Scotland tend to display higher WTP for peatland restoration. However, differences exist across respondents, depending on their socio-demographic profile and the geographical area. A better understanding of the heterogeneity of preferences for ecosystem services is helpful to guide more efficient policy design and to inform policy-makers about the distributional impacts of planned policies for equity considerations in project appraisal.