PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Aanesen, Margrethe
AU  - Armstrong, Claire
AU  - Borch, Trude
AU  - Fieler, Reinhold
AU  - Hausner, Vera
AU  - Kipperberg, Gorm
AU  - Lindhjem, Henrik
AU  - Navrud, Ståle
TI  - To Tell or Not to Tell: Preference Elicitation with and without Emphasis on Scientific Uncertainty
AID  - 10.3368/le.99.3.021122-0011R
DP  - 2023 Aug 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 397--412
VI  - 99
IP  - 3
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/99/3/397.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/99/3/397.full
AB  - Decisions about the optimal use of coastal and marine resources must be made with high uncertainty about environmental impacts and may conflict with public perception of the risk associated with current blue growth initiatives. In a discrete choice experiment conducted in valuation workshops in five communities in Arctic Norway, we examine public preferences for various aquaculture expansion paths. Respondents prefer a smaller expansion in terms of the number of aquaculture sites compared with the planned expansion. Emphasizing scientific uncertainty regarding the negative environmental impacts of aquaculture leads to lower resistance against the planned expansion.