This report presents results of research designed to investigate variations in willingness to pay (WTP) estimates … scale and scope effects. A choice-modelling (CM) analysis was used to elicit household WTP for improvements in environmental … quality attributes in the Namoi catchment. The approach was developed so that value estimates could be more accurately …

catchment and farm level planning. Local residents, as well as distant rural and distant urban communities, were surveyed in … respondents’ attitudes about, and preferences for, potential natural resource management (NRM) improvements. In total, 3 …,997 responses were collected from seven different locations in NSW. Fourteen split samples were established to allow for testing of …

Wetland protection in the Upper South East (USE) of South Australia yields a range of private and social benefits. The … activities such as duck hunting. In this paper, the results of a study investigating the extent of the benefits enjoyed by duck … hunters in the USE are reported. The travel cost method was employed in a survey of those participating in a weekend duck hunt …

Integrated catchment policies are widely used to manage natural resources in Australian catchments. Integration of … assessments of the environmental and economic trade-offs of changes in catchment management, fully integrated models are needed …. The model incorporates hydrological, ecological and economic models for the George catchment in Tasmania. Choice …

Ensuring the continued viability of rural and regional communities in Australia has become a high priority politically … settlement densities. In Europe and the United States of America, similar political pressures to keep rural communities viable … manifest in the form of demands for public resources, the question is whether or not the tax paying public enjoy benefits from …

distributional weights suitable for inclusion in a Benefit Cost Analysis framework. The findings of a choice modelling experiment …

Waste policy in Australia has a strong focus on kerbside recycling. This has a range of costs and benefits to the … community, including non-market benefits. However, in Australia, there has been little investigation of household willingness to … in Brisbane, Australia for kerbside waste collection services including kerbside recycling. It was found that households …

The Booroolong frog project in the Namoi Catchment represents an environmental investment to protect the species and … around 10.7 kilometres of its habitat in the catchment. The project’s benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of 8.6 indicates that the … therefore result in a significant return on investment upon project completion in 10 years time. The benefits are estimated …

An elicitation format prevalently applied in discrete choice experiments (DCEs) offers each respondent a sequence of … reported in this paper uses a split sample approach. This approach was based on field surveys using a single binary elicitation … answered repeated choice questions. However, we did not find any indications for strategic behaviour in respondents caused by …

Choice experiments (CE) are increasingly used as a stated preference technique to value changes in non-market goods … marginal values for changes in the non-market attributes presented can be estimated. The monetary attribute has central … importance. However, there has been limited research on the impacts on respondents’ choices of changing the (range in) levels of …