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Prioritizing Ecosystem Service Protection and Conservation Efforts in the Forest Plantations of the Red Hills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Rebecca Moore
Rebecca Moore*
Affiliation:
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia
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Correspondence: Rebecca Moore ▪ Fort Collins Science Center ▪ 2150 Centre Avenue, Building C ▪ Fort Collins, CO 80526 ▪ Phone 970.226.9246 ▪ Email [email protected].
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Abstract

We use a stated choice experiment to estimate household willingness-to-pay for a program providing incentives to private forest land owners in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia and northwest Florida. The estimated values of various program attributes inform a landscape analysis that identifies high-priority private forest land that could be targeted for conservation incentives. Households report an increase in utility from the program when it explicitly identifies a target ecosystem-service priority. Also, inclusion of stated preference values in the prioritization plan highlights a potential scarcity effect that has important implications for conservation targeting.

Keywords

conservation priorityforest ecosystem servicestated choicevaluation
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Selected Papers
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , April 2013 , pp. 225 - 250
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Copyright © 2013 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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