@article{Spencer-Cotton:240693,
      recid = {240693},
      author = {Spencer-Cotton, Alaya and Kragt, Marit Ellen and Burton,  Michael},
      title = {Human values and aspirations for coastal waters of the  Kimberley: Social values and management preferences using  Choice Experiments},
      address = {2016-07-01},
      number = {1784-2016-141838},
      series = {Working papers},
      pages = {58},
      month = {Jul},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {This is a report from the Kimberley Research Node Project  2.1.2 “Human values and aspirations for coastal waters of  the Kimberley” research project funded by the Western  Australian Government and administered by the Western  Australian Marine Science Institution. The study area is  the Kimberley coastline and waters extending from south  western part of Eighty Mile Beach to the Northern Territory  border. This research supports the management intentions of  the State Government to establish a network of marine parks  in the State waters along the Kimberley coast.
This report  presents the findings of an online choice experiment survey  conducted with a range of participants and stakeholders.  The online survey comprised of two parts, it was a  collaboration with Murdoch University.
In the choice  experiment, respondents were presented with two active  management options, and a third ‘no-action’ option. A  particular research focus of this choice experiment is the  impact of making the choice experiment questions spatially  explicit. Researchers were interested in people’s choices  for management options that were linked to a specific  region (or ‘management zones’) of the Kimberley coast. In  this study the Kimberley region was divided into six  management zones, determined in consultation with key  stakeholders.
The management options contained four  spatially specific attributes and an associated management  cost. The spatially specific attributes were: percentage of  State waters zoned as sanctuary areas; number of Aboriginal  rangers, level of average recreational facilities in the  region, and whether additional development (as defined  using a description and photograph) would occur in the  region. 
Mixed logit models were estimated to account for  random taste differences across respondents. Interactions  between socio-economic variables and the choice attributes  were included to account for systematic heterogeneity.  Separate models were estimated for each sample as  preliminary analysis suggested there is unlikely to be a  single unifying model of preferences,
Results suggest that  hold values and preferences for the choice attributes  presented. Focussing on the key management question of  providing marine sanctuary zones in State waters, all  models confirmed that increasing the area of sanctuary  zones is valued by WA residents.
Increasing recreation  facilities to a relatively high level was generally not  valued or valued negatively. This change reduces welfare  especially in the four northern more remote zones (Dampier  Peninsula, Buccaneer Archipelago, Camden Sound, and North  Kimberley). The same pattern emerges for the coastal  development attribute. Coastal development was defined as a  relatively small change, representing impact on the sense  of remoteness. There was a strong aversion to this change,  particularly in the northern zones.
Although there was some  heterogeneity in preferences, the overall picture that  emerges from the analysis is that respondents are prepared  to pay to increase environmental protection in coastal  waters and wish to avoid development along the coast, even  where this would improve current public access.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/240693},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.240693},
}