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Scale and scope effects on communities’ values for environmental improvements in the Namoi catchment: A choice modelling approach

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  • Kasia Mazur

    (Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University)

  • Jeff Bennett

    (Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University)

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This report presents results of research designed to investigate variations in willingness to pay (WTP) estimates across different scales and scopes of environmental investments. The goal is to help catchment management authorities better prioritise their natural resource management actions at both catchment and farm levels. Five split samples were used to test for scale and scope effects. A choice modelling (CM) analysis that involved the estimation of conditional logit was used to elicit household WTP for improvements in environmental quality attributes in the Namoi catchment. The approach was developed to facilitate the more accurate transfer of value estimates between different scopes of actions.

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  • Kasia Mazur & Jeff Bennett, 2009. "Scale and scope effects on communities’ values for environmental improvements in the Namoi catchment: A choice modelling approach," Environmental Economics Research Hub Research Reports 0942, Environmental Economics Research Hub, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
  • Handle: RePEc:een:eenhrr:0942
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    1. van Bueren, Martin & Bennett, Jeffrey W., 2004. "Towards the development of a transferable set of value estimates for environmental attributes," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 48(1), pages 1-32.
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    Choice modelling; Scale effect; Scope effect; Embedding; Non-market valuation; Catchment planning; Environment;
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