Payments for environmental services to strengthen ecosystem connectivity in an agricultural landscape

Title
Payments for environmental services to strengthen ecosystem connectivity in an agricultural landscape
Publication Date
2018-12
Author(s)
Bateman, Laura
Yi, Dale
Cacho, Oscar J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1542-4442
Email: ocacho@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ocacho
Stringer, Randy
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1017/S1355770X1800030X
UNE publication id
une:-20180801-102912
une:-20180801-102912
Abstract
This article investigates the use of payments for environmental services to support a wildlife corridor between two Priority Tiger Conservation Landscapes in central Sumatra, Indonesia. Several hundred smallholders operate within a Protection Forest linking the Tiger Conservation Landscapes. This study explores the willingness of these smallholders to accept a payment requiring them to forgo access to their land for five years. In addition to asking households directly what they would be willing to accept (WTA), we also ask them to infer what their neighbour would accept. The study finds evidence of hypothetical bias in the conventional WTA values, with a statistically significant difference between what people say they would be willing to accept when surveyed, compared to what they say would actually be willing to accept in a ‘real life’ situation. We show how inferred valuation techniques can mitigate against this.
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Citation
Environment and Development Economics, 23(6), p. 635-654
ISSN
1469-4395
1355-770X
Start page
635
End page
654

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