Don't Discount Economic Valuation for Conservation

Economic valuation: Is the society willing to pay for conservation of Hoor-al-Azim Wetland?

Examining society’s preferences for any change in the status of wetlands, can translate their direct and indirect benefits into monetary values and provide useful information for the policy makers and planners. Hoor-al-Azim Wetland (also Hoor-al-Hoveizeh) is one of the four large wetlands with an area of over 125 thousand hectares located in Khuzestan province located in southwestern Iran on it...

Economic Valuation as a Framework Incentive to Enforce Conservation

Applying CVM for Economic Valuation of Drinking Water in Iran

Economic valuation of water is useful in the administration and management of water. Population growth and urbanization caused municipal water demand increase in Iran. Limited water resource supply and urban water network capacity raised complexity in water resources management. Present condition suggests using economic value of water as a criterion for allocating policies and feasibility study...

Economic Valuation of the Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation in South Korea: Correcting for the Endogeneity Bias in Contingent Valuation

In this study, we use the Contingent Valuation (CV) method to estimate households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the aquatic ecosystem health (biodiversity) improvement. This paper extends CV studies by dealing with the endogenous effect of a proxy variable, namely the subjective experience of negative environmental quality changes. The results show that the correction for the endogeneity bias f...

Economic Valuation of the Shadegan Wetland

The Shadegan Wetland is located in the southwest of Iran. It is one of the wetlands internationally registered in the Ramsar Convention. Thanks to its variety of functionalities this wetlands has provided the local people with lots of job opportunities. Nowadays, as a result of located in the oil fields, this wetland is threatened by many of the projects run in its vicinity, like oil exploratio...