... the country’s heavy reliance on cocoa foreign exchange earnings. Based on this, the study explores farmers’ preferred cocoa farm rehabilitation options with the desired non-market environmental benefits and the associated challenges that must be addressed through a discrete Choice Experiment approach...

... to these services by local communities are also generally unknown in developing countries. Using a case study of the Mau forest conservancy in Kenya, this study applied a choice experiment technique to estimate the value attached to salient forest ecosystem services by forest-adjacent communities. The choices were...

... both a discrete choice experiment (CE) and a contingent valuation (CV) question within a single survey. This paper presents results of a nonmarket valuation study that employs both methods to elicit public preferences over uncertainty of outcomes and over management strategies. The two methods were...

... groups or regions) to make REDD + projects more effective. However, there is no clear understanding of how targeting could be done based on households' preferences for various design features of a REDD + policy. Using choice experiment data obtained from two groups of households (project participants...

...Masaya Fujino; Koichi Kuriyama; Kentaro Yoshida In this study, we evaluate the Japanese biodiversity conservation policy using a set of choice experiments. We use a random parameter logit model and a latent class logit model to assess the marginal willingness to pay for environmental protection...

...-financial incentives to convert part of their land into forest is examined in a discrete choice experiment. Besides landowner and contract characteristics, we test the role of motivational drivers in explaining farmers’ willingness to conclude afforestation agreements. These are expected to lower demand...

... Sciences, Umeå. Published by Elsevier GmbH 2013 Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå. Published by Elsevier GmbH Licensed re-use rights only Choice experiment Income sensitivity of WTP Environmental valuation Wildlife Recreational access Forests...

...Mara Thiene; Jürgen Meyerhoff; Maria De Salvo Serial non-participation is a response behavior that is frequently found in stated choice experiments. One form of serial non-participation is that a varying number of respondents chooses always the zero-price or status quo alternative. The approaches...

...Jürgen Meyerhoff; Ulf Liebe; Volkmar Hartje In this paper, we present the results from two choice experiments that were employed to measure the benefits from changed levels of biodiversity due to nature-oriented silviculture in Lower Saxony, Germany. We also discüss different variants...

... for NTFPs is often overlooked when proposing the development of new NTFPs. Our study specifically evaluates the market potential for wild berry jams produced by aboriginal communities.Results from a choice experiment administered to shoppers in specialty urban food stores indicated that aboriginal jam...