dc.contributor.author | Faccioli, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuhfuss, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Czajkowski, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-04T10:44:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-09-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | The outcome of a conservation policy is often subject to uncertainty. In stated preference valuation, it is increasingly recognised that uncertainty affects preferences for the outcomes of environmental policies. However, there is also agreement that the effect of uncertainty and people’s attitudes towards risk need to be better understood. To shed more light on the impact of risk, we designed a discrete choice experiment to compare preferences for environmental outcomes under climate change across two split samples. Each sample was confronted with a scenario where results were presented as certain or uncertain, but were otherwise associated with the same expected values. We found significant differences between the certain and the uncertain treatment, with uncertain outcomes being associated with more extreme utility levels and willingness to pay, in absolute terms. This finding was confirmed irrespective of whether gains or losses were considered and despite sensitivity to uncertainty—specific to the socio-demographic profile. Our results suggest that individuals are not risk neutral in the presence of uncertainty around environmental outcomes. These findings are crucial to better understand stated preferences for conservation policies in risky contexts. Our results reinforce the idea that uncertainty should be explicitly incorporated in the design of stated preference studies to better inform policy. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The data collection for this research work was conducted under the Training Program for University Professors of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (AP2010-3810) and has received financial support from the Government of the Balearic Islands through the Special Action Program (AAEE025/2012) and the CICYT Program of the Spanish Government (ECO2010-22143). The preparation of this manuscript was mostly funded through the Scottish Government Rural Affairs and the Environment Portfolio Strategic Research Programme 2016–2021 (WP 1.4. “Sustainable Management of Natural Assets”). MC gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Science Centre of Poland (Sonata 10, 2015/19/D/HS4/01972). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 3 September 2018 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10640-018-0276-2 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34191 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag for European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Stated preference valuation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Uncertainty | en_GB |
dc.subject | Risk attitude | en_GB |
dc.subject | Climate change | en_GB |
dc.subject | Conservation | en_GB |
dc.title | Stated Preferences for Conservation Policies Under Uncertainty: Insights on the Effect of Individuals’ Risk Attitudes in the Environmental Domain | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-04T10:44:09Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0924-6460 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Environmental and Resource Economics | en_GB |