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Machado, Kleber Bladimir.

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Willingness to pay for conservation programs: A contingent valuation study of the Galapagos National Park (Ecuador).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Willingness to pay for conservation programs: A contingent valuation study of the Galapagos National Park (Ecuador)./
Author:	Machado, Kleber Bladimir.
Description:	448 p.
Notes:	Adviser: David R. Lee.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-04A.
Subject:	Economics, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9967505
ISBN:	0599722525

Willingness to pay for conservation programs: A contingent valuation study of the Galapagos National Park (Ecuador).
Machado, Kleber Bladimir.

Willingness to pay for conservation programs: A contingent valuation study of the Galapagos National Park (Ecuador). - 448 p.

Adviser: David R. Lee.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2000.

This study attempts to answer the question of whether or not visitors to the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador are willing to pay higher entrance fees if they are told the money will be used to implement conservation programs in the park. User fees for protected areas can be key to capturing the benefits of ecotourism, while procuring the financial resources necessary to implement conservation programs. In this research, the contingent valuation method (CVM) is used to elicit visitors' willingness to pay for conservation programs in the Galapagos. As a case study, this research contributes to the CV literature an empirical analysis of the current entrance fee policy in the Park, and the potential use of user fees as a mechanism for the implementation of conservation programs. Additionally, this research comprehensively examines the validity of CVM estimates conditional on the use of a debriefing question which attempts to elicit “unbiased” willingness to pay estimates.

ISBN: 0599722525Subjects--Topical Terms:

626648
Economics, Agricultural.

Willingness to pay for conservation programs: A contingent valuation study of the Galapagos National Park (Ecuador).
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520 $a A CV survey was administered during the Spring of 1998. The results of this survey indicate that visitors to the GNP are willing to pay higher entrance fees for the implementation of more comprehensive conservation programs. Respondents were presented with three options that contained different levels of conservation efforts and were asked to state the maximum entrance fee they would pay if an option was implemented. Consistently, respondents stated higher WTP answers for the more comprehensive options. In this study, we also showed that it is possible to test for embedding through follow up questions that obtain self reports from respondents. We show that the CV estimates pass tests of scope, order, and anchoring effects when the tests were performed on the WTP estimates corrected by the self-reported coefficient of embeddedness. However, the CV estimates did not pass a scope test when the stated WTP answers were used (i.e., without correcting for embedding). This study also showed that visitors' socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, and perceptions of the environmental quality of the Park, are significant determinants of WTP for the implementation of conservation programs in the Galapagos National Park.
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