Abstract

BARRANTES, Cecilio A.  and  FLORES, Enrique R.. Estimating the willingness to pay for the conservation of andean rangelands. Ecol. apl. [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.2, pp.91-97. ISSN 1726-2216.

A study was conducted to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for the implementation of the Range Conservation and Improvement Program (RCIP) in the Pasco Region, using a contingent valuation method. To estimate the WTP we conducted a preliminary open survey to 30 respondents and a closed binary format to other 105 respondents. The open survey allowed to define seven vectors of payment or BIDs (S/. 1, 5, 10, 20, 25, 30 and 40) to which we applied a closed surveys 15 for each BID. The results of the closed survey were run on NLOGIT 3.0, using a LOGIT distributions in three stages, the first with all the variables of the survey, the second with the socioeconomic variables and third with monthly family income as a unique variable. The outputs of the three stage running process were similar in terms of signs, BID (negative) and monthly family income (positive). The WTP was S/. 3.94/family/month, revealing that the regional government of Pasco could have S/. 1.95 millions of soles available to invest in a RCIP.

Keywords : willingness to pay; contingent valuation; andean rangelands.

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