Valuing coastal fisheries and seagrasses: A case study of estuarine resources on Florida's Nature Coast

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108517

Olesya M. Savchenko , Robert Botta , Roberto Koeneke , Jana Hilsenroth , Kelly A. Grogan , Holden E. Harris , Christa D. Court

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Abstract

This study uses a choice experiment survey of 1002 Florida residents and visitors to estimate willingness to pay for environmental programs leading to changes in populations of recreationally and economically important fish (red drum, seatrout, snook) and abundance of seagrass on Florida's Nature Coast. We estimate a series of random parameter logit models and conduct a latent class analysis to explore heterogeneity in preferences. Our results suggest that respondents are willing to pay to prevent declines in populations and abundance of all four aquatic resources. However, respondents are only willing to pay for increases in spotted seatrout and seagrasses. Our analysis further shows that female respondents, individuals with a bachelor's degree or higher, and those who have visited or fished on the Nature Coast are more likely to pay for an environmental program to improve environmental conditions. These results inform resource management decisions aimed at preserving estuarine and coastal resources on the Nature Coast and similar regions worldwide threatened by the negative impacts of human activities and climate change.

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评估沿海渔业和海草：佛罗里达州自然海岸河口资源的案例研究

本研究对1002名佛罗里达州居民和游客进行了选择实验调查，以估计他们愿意为环境项目付费，这些项目会导致佛罗里达州自然海岸上具有娱乐和经济意义的重要鱼类（红鼓鱼、鲷鱼、斯努克鱼）数量的变化，以及海草的丰富程度。我们估计了一系列随机参数logit模型，并进行了潜在类分析，以探索偏好的异质性。我们的研究结果表明，受访者愿意为防止这四种水生资源的数量和丰度下降而付费。然而，受访者只愿意为斑驳的海鹭和海草的增加买单。我们的分析进一步表明，女性受访者，拥有学士学位或更高学位的个人，以及那些在自然海岸参观或钓鱼的人更有可能为改善环境状况的环境计划付费。这些结果为资源管理决策提供了参考，旨在保护自然海岸和全球类似地区的河口和沿海资源，这些地区受到人类活动和气候变化的负面影响。

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Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.