Valuing Grassland Restoration: Proximity to Substitutes and Trade-offs among Conservation Attributes
通过选择实验调查，估算了人们对恢复草地生态系统不同属性的支付意愿，发现附近草地、物种丰富度、种群密度和濒危物种存在均显著影响支付意愿。
We demonstrate how choice experiment survey methods can be used to guide ecosystem restoration efforts. We use a choice experiment survey to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for different attributes of restored grassland ecosystems. We find that the presence of nearby grasslands increases a respondent’s WTP and that species richness, population density, and the presence of endangered species are all significant factors that contribute to the respondent’s WTP. This implies that all these conservation success measures should be taken into account in planning and in research. To our knowledge this is the first study to calculate the WTP for grasslands.