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Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: Tale of Confused Objectives, Multiple Market Failures and Policy Challenges

Coria, Jessica; Robinson, Elizabeth; Smith, Henrik G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend seems to be changing due in part to the relative success of payment...

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Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden

Nordén, Anna; Coria, Jessica; Jönsson, Anna Maria; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2015

preferences of key stakeholders. In this study, we examine and compare the valuation of forest attributes across the general … public, private non-industrial forest owners and forest officials in Sweden by conducting a choice experiment. Our results … than those of forest owners, implying that there is room for compensation. Interestingly, our results suggest that both …

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Forestland Reform in China: What do the Farmers Want? A Choice Experiment on Farmers’ Property Rights Preferences

Qin, Pin; Carlsson, Fredrik; Xu, Jintao - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Various decentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector. However, a key question … farmers’ marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) for a forest contract. An extended waiting time for rights to harvest the forest …

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Agricultural Risk Management through Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Rural Zimbabwe

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper investigates whether the risk faced by rural farmers in Zimbabwe could poten- tially be managed by using community-based wildlife conservation. Community-based wildlife conservation could be an additional asset in the rural farmers’ investment portfolio thereby potentially...

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Biodiversity Conservation under an Imperfect Seed System: the Role of Community Seed Banking Scheme

Bezabih, Mintewab - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

The study is an empirical investigation of agrobiodiversity conservation decisions of small farmers in the central highlands of Ethiopia. The primary objective is to measure the effectiveness of Community Seed Banking (CSB) in enhancing diversity while providing productivity incentives. The...

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Malthus in Rwanda? Scarcity, Survival and Causes of the Genocide

Yanagizawa, David - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

This paper does two things. First, it develops a game theoretical model over population groups that optimize their survival under resource scarce conditions. The model includes two rather obvious, but in the theoretical literature neglected, strategies - survival by migration and, once a...

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Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Carlsson, Fredrik; Köhlin, Gunnar - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be trusted to be its stewards. To assess their valuation of it, a CVM study was conducted for one CAMPFIRE district in Zimbabwe. Respondents were classi…ed according to their preferences over the...

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Assessing management options for weed control with demanders and non-demanders in a choice experiment

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

The yellow floating heart is a water weed causing nuisance problems in Swedish watercourses. An economic analysis of this is required where various management options are considered. The benefits of a management program are to a large extent recreational. Using a choice experiment we estimate...

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Heterogeneous preferences for marine amenities: A choice experiment applied to water quality

Eggert, Håkan; Olsson, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

The marine environment provides many goods and services dependent upon the quality of coastal waters. In this paper, we represent water quality by three different attributes, fish stock level, bathing water quality, and biodiversity level, and carry out a choice experiment among residents on the...

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Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Determinants

Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; Mekonnen, Alemu; Kassie, Menale; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Trees have multiple purposes in rural Ethiopia, providing significant economic and ecological benefits. Planting trees supplies rural households with wood products for their own consumption, as well for sale, and decreases soil degradation. In this paper, we used cross-sectional household-level...

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