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Contrasting the preservation value of a domestic and a foreign wildlife reserve.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contrasting the preservation value of a domestic and a foreign wildlife reserve./
Author:	Hsu, Yi-Chung.
Description:	163 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1326.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-04A.
Subject:	Recreation. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9926603
ISBN:	0599263822

Contrasting the preservation value of a domestic and a foreign wildlife reserve.
Hsu, Yi-Chung.

Contrasting the preservation value of a domestic and a foreign wildlife reserve. - 163 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1326.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Clemson University, 1998.

Environmental and resource economists often perform cost benefit analysis prior to the development of projects involving natural resource allocation decisions. Apart from acting as an indicator of the strength of environmental preference, this measurement plays an essential role in developing regulatory policy by studying the monetary value of benefits in comparison to the dollar costs of enforcing a policy. Benefit measurement techniques for nonuse value have relied heavily on the contingent valuation method which frequently uses surveys to obtain information on the demand for nonmarket goods, such as clean air, a pleasant view, or the aesthetic value of the forest. People are generally asked what they are willing to pay for a benefit such as environmental improvement or preservation. To date, there exists a lack of nonuse value estimates related to environmental goods of developing countries, or a comparison of domestic and foreign sites in terms of the nonuse value and underlying motives for this value. As such, this study sought to construct a framework to further explain why people, if they do value these areas, place a value on these environmental goods for which they have no easy access. The specific purpose was to investigate the preservation value and the motives for willingness to pay to preserve two wildlife reserves, one in Rhode Island and one in Taiwan. The contingent valuation method was utilized to measure WTP values. Two versions of a self-administered questionnaire were distributed to 2,000 individuals in four southeastern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The response rates were 23.8 percent and 20.6 percent for Rhode Island and Taiwan versions, respectively. The findings revealed that about one third of the respondents were willing to pay to preserve either of the wildlife reserves. The WTP values for the Rhode Island site was significantly greater than that for the Taiwan site (mean values

ISBN: 0599263822Subjects--Topical Terms:

535376
Recreation.

Contrasting the preservation value of a domestic and a foreign wildlife reserve.
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