Östberg, Katarina
(2016).
Non-market valuation of coastal ecosystem services.
Diss. (sammanfattning/summary)
Umeå :
Sveriges lantbruksuniv.,
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae, 1652-6880
; 2016:43
ISBN 978-91-576-8588-9
eISBN 978-91-576-8589-6
[Doctoral thesis]
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Abstract
Marine and coastal ecosystems provide benefits to people through the provision of seafood, maintenance of water quality and several other valuable ecosystem services. The need to understand these benefits in economic terms has never been more pressing. Contingent valuation and choice experiments are survey-based non-market valuation methods that can be applied to estimate the values of these benefits.
This thesis aims to address some of the challenges facing non-market valuation of coastal ecosystem services, comprising a summary and four appended papers that are based on two separate studies designed to value coastal ecosystem services in two archipelago areas in Sweden.
Paper I addresses the challenge of creating and describing a contingent valuation scenario so as to achieve content validity. A holistic valuation scenario based on ecological measures that are well connected to policy was developed and is described and evaluated.
Sometimes when decisions have to be made and new valuation studies are impossible due to time and funding restrictions, estimates from existing studies can be transferred to a new setting, an approach referred to as benefit transfer. Including socio-economic information in choice experiment models for benefit transfer is addressed in Paper II. The findings suggest that a more ‘general’ model based on socio-economic information that can be easily obtained from public databases performs quite well as a model that would require the collection of more detailed information.
Paper III addresses distributional effects of environmental policies affecting coastal ecosystem services. The study presents information regarding distributional effects in both monetary terms and in terms of environmental quality for different socio-economic groups.
Paper IV addresses the important topic of model selection uncertainty for choice experiments in environmental valuation. To be able to ensure robustness of results, this study proposes an information-theoretic approach for model selection. The findings also indicate that greater attention should be paid to potential policy implications that may follow from different model specifications.
Authors/Creators: | Östberg, Katarina | ||||||||||
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Title: | Non-market valuation of coastal ecosystem services | ||||||||||
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Series/Journal: | Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae (1652-6880) | ||||||||||
Year of publishing : | 2016 | ||||||||||
Depositing date: | 9 May 2016 | ||||||||||
Number: | 2016:43 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 84 | ||||||||||
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Place of Publication: | Umeå | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | ||||||||||
ISBN for printed version: | 978-91-576-8588-9 | ||||||||||
ISBN for electronic version: | 978-91-576-8589-6 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1652-6880 | ||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||
Additional Information: | External funding by Naturvårdsverket through the research programme PlusMinus | ||||||||||
Publication Type: | Doctoral thesis | ||||||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||||||
Agris subject categories.: | E Economics, development, and rural sociology > E11 Land economics and policies P Natural resources > P01 Nature conservation and land resources P Natural resources > P10 Water resources and management | ||||||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 502 Economics and Business > Economics | ||||||||||
Agrovoc terms: | coasts, marine environment, ecosystem services, use value, valuation, economic analysis, models, statistical methods, sweden | ||||||||||
Keywords: | non-market valuation, contingent valuation, choice experiment, benefit transfer, distributional effects, model selection, coastal ecosystem services | ||||||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3423 | ||||||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3423 | ||||||||||
ID Code: | 13351 | ||||||||||
Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||||||
Department: | (S) > Dept. of Forest Economics | ||||||||||
External funders: | Swedish Environmental Protection Agency | ||||||||||
Deposited By: | Katarina Östberg | ||||||||||
Deposited On: | 09 May 2016 09:34 | ||||||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2020 13:41 |
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