@article{Glenk:25681,
      recid = {25681},
      author = {Glenk, Klaus and Barkmann, Jan and Schwarze, Stefan and  Zeller, Manfred and Marggraf, Rainer},
      title = {Differential Influence of Relative Poverty on Preferences  for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from Rural Indonesia},
      address = {2006},
      number = {1004-2016-78392},
      series = {Contributed Paper},
      pages = {16},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Ecosystem services generate benefits that enter human  consumption either directly or indirectly via their  contribution to human production activities. In this  contribution, we provide evidence that (i) the demand of  peasants for ecosystem services in rural Indonesia depends  on relative poverty; and that (ii) the type of reaction to  poverty depends on the specific relation of the ecosystem  services to peasant production and consumption. In early  2005 a representative choice experiment study was conducted  in the Lore Lindu area in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, to  quantify regional economic preferences (marginal  willingessto- pay: MWTP) for four different ecosystem  services (n=249; rattan and water availability, shading in  cacao agroforestry, population size of the endemic forest  dwelling dwarf buffalo "anoa"). Relative poverty was  calculated with the 2005 data using a 0,1-normally  distributed relative poverty index developed from a  socio-demographic household survey administered to the same  sample in 2004. For shading in cocoa, a linearly decreasing  trend is observed indicating a stronger preference for  "sun-grown" cocoa in the less poor farmers indicating a  constant poverty elasticity of WTP. The empirical poverty  elasticity for anoa supports its luxury good characteristic  only in part. For rattan and water, we find an inverted  U-shape relation between MWTP for ecosystem services and  relative poverty - probably due to serious restrictions in  the ability to pay in the poorest households and a smaller  resource dependency in the less poor households. In sum,  the relationship between relative poverty and MWTP for  ecosystem services appears more complex than classical  micro-economic theory admits.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25681},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.25681},
}