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Abstract
One issue surrounding the use of Choice Modelling (CM) in policy is whether public
and expert preferences diverge regarding particular environmental attributes. To
investigate this issue two case studies use CM to value ecological attributes for the
Ningaloo and proposed Capes marine parks in Western Australia. Public and expert
populations are sampled, with consideration of information effects. Attention is also
given to whether policy relevance can be improved by considering not only desired
outcomes of the hypothetical policy options in the CM exercise, but also the
management process used to achieve these outcomes. Preliminary results of the public
sample identify significant impacts of both information and management process
effects.