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Who Are Resource Nonusers And What Can They Tell Us About Nonuse Values? Decomposing User And Nonuser Willingness To Pay For Coastal Wetland Restoration, Robert J. Johnston, James J. Opaluch, Gisele Magnusson, Marisa J. Mazzotta
Who Are Resource Nonusers And What Can They Tell Us About Nonuse Values? Decomposing User And Nonuser Willingness To Pay For Coastal Wetland Restoration, Robert J. Johnston, James J. Opaluch, Gisele Magnusson, Marisa J. Mazzotta
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Faculty Publications
This article assesses the potential for incomplete definitions of resource use to influence estimates of nonuser willingness to pay (WTP), with an emphasis on resources for which an exhaustive set of uses may be difficult to characterize. The data are drawn from a stated preference analysis involving coastal wetland restoration. Results suggest that mechanisms used to distinguish users and nonusers of wetland services may influence estimates of nonuser WTP and that for some attributes, traditional distinctions between user and nonuser WTP may have arguable empirical justification. More broadly, results suggest that relationships among use behaviors and restoration values may be …