Contingent valuation of landowner demand for forest amenities: application in Andalusia, Spain
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Alejandro Caparrós; José L. Oviedo; Pablo Campos
- Source
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
instname
- Subject
- Economics and Econometrics
Contingent valuation
Natural resource economics
05 social sciences
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Non-market values
Willingness to accept
0502 economics and business
Economics
050202 agricultural economics & policy
Stated preferences
Land tenure
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
- Language
- English
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We applied discrete choice contingent valuation to the amenities consumed by nonindustrial private forest owners in Andalusia (Spain) in a survey of 765 landowners. The landowners’ median willingness to accept compensation from an alternative investment for giving up land amenity consumption is EUR 387.8 per hectare yearly. The preferred model shows diminishing marginal values of amenity consumption with property size, negative effects of eucalyptus and Aleppo pine presence and positive effects of distance to urban centres. We discuss the performance of the question formats and models employed and recommend the single-bounded format in this valuation context
This research has received the financial support of the Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Junta de Andalucía (RECAMAN PROJECT; contract NET 165602) and is a contribution to the projects VAMSIL (201810E036) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and TRENGOOD (ECO2017- 84461 R) of the National R&D Plan of the Spanish Government