PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kinnell, Jason
AU  - Lazo, Jeffrey K.
AU  - Epp, Donald J.
AU  - Fisher, Ann
AU  - Shortle, James S.
TI  - Perceptions and Values for Preventing Ecosystem Change: Pennsylvania Duck Hunters and the Prairie Pothole Region
AID  - 10.2307/3147270
DP  - 2002 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 228--244
VI  - 78
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/78/2/228.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/78/2/228.full
SO  - Land Econ2002 May 01; 78
AB  - Diverse actions and events, ranging from agricultural development to global climate change, have the potential to affect the dynamics within distinct ecosystems. Resource management decisions require information about how people perceive ecosystem impacts and their willingness to pay to prevent or mitigate ecosystem impacts. This study explores the usefulness of a survey approach for gathering such information, especially for ecosystem impacts from climate change. Values for reducing impacts on the Prairie Pothole Region are elicited from Pennsylvania duck hunters. Factor analysis is used to develop a method for examining and accounting for potential scenario rejection. (JEL Q26)