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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research

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Attitudes Toward Genetically Engineered Foods Questionnaire

Economic Benefits of Mt. Cook National Park

Market and non-market valued decisions are associated with New Zealand's system of national parks... more Market and non-market valued decisions are associated with New Zealand's system of national parks. The use benefits of Mount Cook National Park are not priced by the market mechanism, whereas many of the inputs necessary to operate and maintain the Park are priced. Estimates of the economic benefits are relevant information when deciding upon the allocation of resources to, and within, a system of national parks. In 1984, the consumers' surplus for adult New Zealand visitors was about $2.2 million. An estimate of the net national benefits is given by the consumers' surplus obtained by New Zealand visitors, plus the net benefits associated with foreign visitors, less the cost of Park management and land. rental. The net benefit of Mount Cook National Park, as it was in 1984, is likely to be positive, indicating that the benefits associated with the current use pattern of resources exceeds their opportunity cost to the nation. However, this result cannot be used to establish the optimality of current expenditure and management.

Choice Modelling Experts Workshop

Hall, the NZPI CEO has announced he is returning to North America to re-involve himself in profes... more Hall, the NZPI CEO has announced he is returning to North America to re-involve himself in professional transport planning in Toronto. In his 30 months as CEO he has had a significant impact on the NZPI. He brought a passion for improving the standing of the profession, tightening the standards for membership admission while encouraging more people to join and enhancing communication among members. He will be a hard act to follow.

Centre for Resource Management

The Centre for Resource Management is a research and teaching organisation spanning the campuses ... more The Centre for Resource Management is a research and teaching organisation spanning the campuses of the University of Canterbury and Lincoln University in Canterbury~ Research at the Centre is focused on the development of conceptually sound methods for resource use that may lead to a sustainable future. The Centre for Resource Management acknowledges the financial support received from the Ministry for the Environment in the production of this Information Paper. The Centre for Resource Management offers research staff the freedom of inquiry. Therefore, the views expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for Resource Management. Contents 3 Resource allocation tools 3.1 Market aHocation tools 3.1.1 Uniform prices 19-3.1.2 Discriminatory pricing 3.1.3 Vouchers 3.1.4 Auctions. (i) English auction (ii) Dutch auction (iii) Simultaneous bid auction (iv) DiSCUSSIon

Recreational Fishing Values

Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit

from Lincoln University providing research expertise for a wide range of organisations concerned ... more from Lincoln University providing research expertise for a wide range of organisations concerned with production, processing, distribution, finance and marketing. The AERU operates as a semi-commercial research agency. Research contracts are carried out for clients on a commercial basis and University research is supported by the AERU through sponsorship of postgraduate research programmes. Research clients include Government Departments, both within New Zealand and from other countries, international agencies, New Zealand companies and organisations, individuals and farmers. Research results are presented through private client reports, where this is required, and through the publication system operated by the AERU. Two publication series are supported:

Ethnicity and views about the New Zealand environment

Limited research has been completed on the relationship between ethnicity and views within a coun... more Limited research has been completed on the relationship between ethnicity and views within a country on the environment, pressures on the environment and its management. Some recent New Zealand research has found no significant difference in environmental world views between different ethnic groupings. We report selected results from a decade of biennial, nationwide surveys of adults in New Zealand. By socio-demographic measures, respondents are broadly representative of New Zealand adults. In each biennial survey we have found significant differences between ethnicities in views on water quality, causes of damage to water, and water management. There are also significant differences between ethnicities in participation in environmental activities. Our survey has an advantage over other work in that it is able to distinguish between indigenous New Zealanders and native-born New Zealanders, a distinction that proved helpful in identifying these significant differences.

Environment Perceptions Survey

<p>see for full reference to the research: http://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/handle/1018... more

Earthquake Impacts on Immigrant Participation in the Greater Christchurch Construction Labor Market

Population Research and Policy Review, 2018

This dissertation may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and... more This dissertation may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use:  you will use the copy only for the purposes of research or private study  you will recognise the author's right to be identified as the author of the dissertation and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate  you will obtain the author's permission before publishing any material from the dissertation.

An Attitudinal Based Model of Pricing for Recreation Services

Journal of Leisure Research, 1991

This study proposes and tests a model for use in developing pricing strategies for recreational s... more This study proposes and tests a model for use in developing pricing strategies for recreational services. The model builds upon the traditional economic approach by explicitly recognizing the influence of attitudes. New prices are information which is used in developing an attitude toward paying. The model was tested as part of a study of backcountry hut users in New Zealand. Results generally support the model, which allows improved understanding of the basis for user responses to fees, prediction of fee revenues, and prediction of information campaign impacts.

Efficiency of a recreational deer hunting bag limit

European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2019

Maximisation of aggregate recreational hunter benefits involves managing both the prey and the hu... more Maximisation of aggregate recreational hunter benefits involves managing both the prey and the hunter. The biology of game animals, and hence the supply side of the management situation, is reasonably well understood, but there is relatively little information on the demand side. On public lands, where there is no market to signal the quality of the hunting experience, the game manager has little guidance on how to allocate the resource amongst individual hunters. In New Zealand, there is no attempt to do so. Whilst seeing and killing game are known to enhance individual hunters' benefits, the allocation of the resource across hunters raises the prospect of limiting individual hunter harvests, normally enacted through a bag limit. The benefits of doing so are dependent upon the marginal benefits of different levels of harvest. The relationship between hunter satisfaction and the number of animals killed is explored using data from a longitudinal study of a large panel of deer hunters. Latent class models of satisfaction outperform random parameter models and identify heterogeneous groups of hunters whose satisfaction is differentially dependent on game sightings and harvest. Personal attributes and hunter motivations help explain some of these differences. Heterogeneous and rapidly diminishing marginal satisfaction present a strong case for management of at least part of the openaccess New Zealand red deer herd to enhance social welfare by increasing the number of hunters harvesting a deer rather than going home empty-handed.

The use of share contracts in New Zealand dairy farming

Oxford Agrarian Studies, 1983

Lincoln's biennial environmental perceptions survey: lessons from 2000-2010, with a focus on water

Cultural service values of a small river in Canterbury

Elicitation and truncation effects in contingent valuation studies

Ecological Economics, 1995

The contingent valuation method (CVM) uses surveys of expressed preferences to evaluate willingne... more The contingent valuation method (CVM) uses surveys of expressed preferences to evaluate willingness to pay for (generally) non-market, environmental goods. This approach gives the method theoretical applicability to an extensive range of use and passive-use values associated with such goods. However, recent years have seen the method come under sustained empirical and theoretical attack by critics who claim that the expressed preference statements given by respondents to CVM questions are subject to a variety of biases to the extent that "true" valuations cannot be inferred. This debate was reviewed and assessed in the recent report of the US, NOAA "blue-ribbon" panel which gave cautious approval to the method subject to adherence to a rigorous testing protocol. This paper reports findings from the first UK CVM study to generally conform to those guidelines. The major objective of the research reported on here is the analysis of the effects of altering the method of eliciting willingness to pay (WTP) responses. Three WTP elicitation methods are employed: open-ended questions (where the respondent is free to give any answer); dichotomous choice questions (requiring a yes/no response regarding a set WTP bid level); and iterative bidding questions (where a respondent is free to move up or down from a given WTP starting point). Results indicate that respondents experience significant uncertainty in answering open-ended questions and may exhibit free-riding or strategic overbidding tendencies (although this is less certain). When answering dichotomous choice questions respondents seem to experience much less uncertainty although the suggestion that bid levels affect responses cannot be ruled out, and it is clear that respondents behave somewhat differently to dichotomous choice as opposed to open-ended formats. The iterative bidding approach appears to provide a halfway house with respondents exhibiting certain of the characteristics of both the other formats. We concluded that the level of uncertainty induced by open-ended formats is a major concern, and that further research into the microeconomic motivations of individuals responding to iterative bidding and dichotomous choice CV surveys is high priority. A further aim of the analysis was to test for changes in estimated mean WTP induced by the application of different

New Zealanders’ perceptions of the environment and quality of environmental management

This study reveals that preferences for allocation of government spending on aspects of the New Z... more This study reveals that preferences for allocation of government spending on aspects of the New Zealand environment are related to concerns for the state of the environment and quality of management. Drawing upon selected data from a survey of New Zealand perceptions of the environment and its management, it is found that moderate increases in funding were preferred for seven aspects of the environment. Investigation of perceptions of quality and availability found most people had few concerns. However, people were concerned about how parts of the environment are changing. Levels of concern differed with regard to perceptions of current quality of management and changes in quality of management. Investigation of associations between perceptions and preferred national budget allocation found that changes in most perceptions would impact upon preferences for funding allocation. In addition, for some aspects, differences between preferred institutional arrangements for management were related to preferred levels of funding allocation.

Perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment-water

The second biennial survey of people's perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment wa... more The second biennial survey of people's perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken in February 2002. The survey is based on the Pressure-State-Response model of state of the environment reporting. It tests perceptions of all the main resource areas-air quality, native plants and animals, native forest and bush, soils, beaches and coastal waters, marine fisheries, marine reserves, freshwaters, national parks, wetlands, urban environments, and the natural environment. It also examines preferences for changes in government expenditure between environmental and other government activities.

What New Zealanders think about marine recreational fishing

Public perception of the urban environment: comparison of Wellington with national data

Assessment of public responses to policies designed to internalise environmental and social externalities associated with the transport sector in New Zealand

An integrated approach to the environmental and social externalities associated with the transpor... more An integrated approach to the environmental and social externalities associated with the transport sector was explored within an omnibus biennial survey of peoples' perceptions of the New Zealand environment carried out in 2006. Survey respondents were provided with information about greenhouse gas emissions, road and pollutionrelated deaths, and about direct consumer costs attributable to transport. They were then asked to evaluate four options considered most likely to result in reductions to one or more of these impacts. These options involved introducing or increasing road user charges, reducing the open road speed limit, fuel use efficiency standards, and mandatory exhaust gas quality standards for all cars. Results indicate an overall unwillingness to adopt these measures. Policy makers are nevertheless faced with the challenge of improving land transport sustainability and are therefore in the unenviable position of recommending best performing but least politically damaging policy options. To this end it appears that policies that target particular combinations of impacts are more likely to be supported than those that are more open-ended and generally aim at internalising the overall impacts of road use. However, it is also clear that vehicle users are more likely to support targeted policies that are unlikely to be the most effective in reducing these particular impacts or combinations thereof. This is because the most effective policies would involve all drivers, and have immediate impacts. Notably, however, female respondents and those using public transport were more likely to be supportive of options that would likely have the greatest overall benefits. Lessons for policy makers can be drawn from this study, including how to improve the targeting of policy options to particularly difficult but potentially influential groupings.

Attitudes Toward Genetically Engineered Foods Questionnaire

Economic Benefits of Mt. Cook National Park

Market and non-market valued decisions are associated with New Zealand's system of national parks... more Market and non-market valued decisions are associated with New Zealand's system of national parks. The use benefits of Mount Cook National Park are not priced by the market mechanism, whereas many of the inputs necessary to operate and maintain the Park are priced. Estimates of the economic benefits are relevant information when deciding upon the allocation of resources to, and within, a system of national parks. In 1984, the consumers' surplus for adult New Zealand visitors was about $2.2 million. An estimate of the net national benefits is given by the consumers' surplus obtained by New Zealand visitors, plus the net benefits associated with foreign visitors, less the cost of Park management and land. rental. The net benefit of Mount Cook National Park, as it was in 1984, is likely to be positive, indicating that the benefits associated with the current use pattern of resources exceeds their opportunity cost to the nation. However, this result cannot be used to establish the optimality of current expenditure and management.

Choice Modelling Experts Workshop

Hall, the NZPI CEO has announced he is returning to North America to re-involve himself in profes... more Hall, the NZPI CEO has announced he is returning to North America to re-involve himself in professional transport planning in Toronto. In his 30 months as CEO he has had a significant impact on the NZPI. He brought a passion for improving the standing of the profession, tightening the standards for membership admission while encouraging more people to join and enhancing communication among members. He will be a hard act to follow.

Centre for Resource Management

The Centre for Resource Management is a research and teaching organisation spanning the campuses ... more The Centre for Resource Management is a research and teaching organisation spanning the campuses of the University of Canterbury and Lincoln University in Canterbury~ Research at the Centre is focused on the development of conceptually sound methods for resource use that may lead to a sustainable future. The Centre for Resource Management acknowledges the financial support received from the Ministry for the Environment in the production of this Information Paper. The Centre for Resource Management offers research staff the freedom of inquiry. Therefore, the views expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for Resource Management. Contents 3 Resource allocation tools 3.1 Market aHocation tools 3.1.1 Uniform prices 19-3.1.2 Discriminatory pricing 3.1.3 Vouchers 3.1.4 Auctions. (i) English auction (ii) Dutch auction (iii) Simultaneous bid auction (iv) DiSCUSSIon

Recreational Fishing Values

Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit

from Lincoln University providing research expertise for a wide range of organisations concerned ... more from Lincoln University providing research expertise for a wide range of organisations concerned with production, processing, distribution, finance and marketing. The AERU operates as a semi-commercial research agency. Research contracts are carried out for clients on a commercial basis and University research is supported by the AERU through sponsorship of postgraduate research programmes. Research clients include Government Departments, both within New Zealand and from other countries, international agencies, New Zealand companies and organisations, individuals and farmers. Research results are presented through private client reports, where this is required, and through the publication system operated by the AERU. Two publication series are supported:

Ethnicity and views about the New Zealand environment

Limited research has been completed on the relationship between ethnicity and views within a coun... more Limited research has been completed on the relationship between ethnicity and views within a country on the environment, pressures on the environment and its management. Some recent New Zealand research has found no significant difference in environmental world views between different ethnic groupings. We report selected results from a decade of biennial, nationwide surveys of adults in New Zealand. By socio-demographic measures, respondents are broadly representative of New Zealand adults. In each biennial survey we have found significant differences between ethnicities in views on water quality, causes of damage to water, and water management. There are also significant differences between ethnicities in participation in environmental activities. Our survey has an advantage over other work in that it is able to distinguish between indigenous New Zealanders and native-born New Zealanders, a distinction that proved helpful in identifying these significant differences.

Environment Perceptions Survey

<p>see for full reference to the research: http://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/handle/1018... more

Earthquake Impacts on Immigrant Participation in the Greater Christchurch Construction Labor Market

Population Research and Policy Review, 2018

This dissertation may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and... more This dissertation may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use:  you will use the copy only for the purposes of research or private study  you will recognise the author's right to be identified as the author of the dissertation and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate  you will obtain the author's permission before publishing any material from the dissertation.

An Attitudinal Based Model of Pricing for Recreation Services

Journal of Leisure Research, 1991

This study proposes and tests a model for use in developing pricing strategies for recreational s... more This study proposes and tests a model for use in developing pricing strategies for recreational services. The model builds upon the traditional economic approach by explicitly recognizing the influence of attitudes. New prices are information which is used in developing an attitude toward paying. The model was tested as part of a study of backcountry hut users in New Zealand. Results generally support the model, which allows improved understanding of the basis for user responses to fees, prediction of fee revenues, and prediction of information campaign impacts.

Efficiency of a recreational deer hunting bag limit

European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2019

Maximisation of aggregate recreational hunter benefits involves managing both the prey and the hu... more Maximisation of aggregate recreational hunter benefits involves managing both the prey and the hunter. The biology of game animals, and hence the supply side of the management situation, is reasonably well understood, but there is relatively little information on the demand side. On public lands, where there is no market to signal the quality of the hunting experience, the game manager has little guidance on how to allocate the resource amongst individual hunters. In New Zealand, there is no attempt to do so. Whilst seeing and killing game are known to enhance individual hunters' benefits, the allocation of the resource across hunters raises the prospect of limiting individual hunter harvests, normally enacted through a bag limit. The benefits of doing so are dependent upon the marginal benefits of different levels of harvest. The relationship between hunter satisfaction and the number of animals killed is explored using data from a longitudinal study of a large panel of deer hunters. Latent class models of satisfaction outperform random parameter models and identify heterogeneous groups of hunters whose satisfaction is differentially dependent on game sightings and harvest. Personal attributes and hunter motivations help explain some of these differences. Heterogeneous and rapidly diminishing marginal satisfaction present a strong case for management of at least part of the openaccess New Zealand red deer herd to enhance social welfare by increasing the number of hunters harvesting a deer rather than going home empty-handed.

The use of share contracts in New Zealand dairy farming

Oxford Agrarian Studies, 1983

Lincoln's biennial environmental perceptions survey: lessons from 2000-2010, with a focus on water

Cultural service values of a small river in Canterbury

Elicitation and truncation effects in contingent valuation studies

Ecological Economics, 1995

The contingent valuation method (CVM) uses surveys of expressed preferences to evaluate willingne... more The contingent valuation method (CVM) uses surveys of expressed preferences to evaluate willingness to pay for (generally) non-market, environmental goods. This approach gives the method theoretical applicability to an extensive range of use and passive-use values associated with such goods. However, recent years have seen the method come under sustained empirical and theoretical attack by critics who claim that the expressed preference statements given by respondents to CVM questions are subject to a variety of biases to the extent that "true" valuations cannot be inferred. This debate was reviewed and assessed in the recent report of the US, NOAA "blue-ribbon" panel which gave cautious approval to the method subject to adherence to a rigorous testing protocol. This paper reports findings from the first UK CVM study to generally conform to those guidelines. The major objective of the research reported on here is the analysis of the effects of altering the method of eliciting willingness to pay (WTP) responses. Three WTP elicitation methods are employed: open-ended questions (where the respondent is free to give any answer); dichotomous choice questions (requiring a yes/no response regarding a set WTP bid level); and iterative bidding questions (where a respondent is free to move up or down from a given WTP starting point). Results indicate that respondents experience significant uncertainty in answering open-ended questions and may exhibit free-riding or strategic overbidding tendencies (although this is less certain). When answering dichotomous choice questions respondents seem to experience much less uncertainty although the suggestion that bid levels affect responses cannot be ruled out, and it is clear that respondents behave somewhat differently to dichotomous choice as opposed to open-ended formats. The iterative bidding approach appears to provide a halfway house with respondents exhibiting certain of the characteristics of both the other formats. We concluded that the level of uncertainty induced by open-ended formats is a major concern, and that further research into the microeconomic motivations of individuals responding to iterative bidding and dichotomous choice CV surveys is high priority. A further aim of the analysis was to test for changes in estimated mean WTP induced by the application of different

New Zealanders’ perceptions of the environment and quality of environmental management

This study reveals that preferences for allocation of government spending on aspects of the New Z... more This study reveals that preferences for allocation of government spending on aspects of the New Zealand environment are related to concerns for the state of the environment and quality of management. Drawing upon selected data from a survey of New Zealand perceptions of the environment and its management, it is found that moderate increases in funding were preferred for seven aspects of the environment. Investigation of perceptions of quality and availability found most people had few concerns. However, people were concerned about how parts of the environment are changing. Levels of concern differed with regard to perceptions of current quality of management and changes in quality of management. Investigation of associations between perceptions and preferred national budget allocation found that changes in most perceptions would impact upon preferences for funding allocation. In addition, for some aspects, differences between preferred institutional arrangements for management were related to preferred levels of funding allocation.

Perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment-water

The second biennial survey of people's perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment wa... more The second biennial survey of people's perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken in February 2002. The survey is based on the Pressure-State-Response model of state of the environment reporting. It tests perceptions of all the main resource areas-air quality, native plants and animals, native forest and bush, soils, beaches and coastal waters, marine fisheries, marine reserves, freshwaters, national parks, wetlands, urban environments, and the natural environment. It also examines preferences for changes in government expenditure between environmental and other government activities.

What New Zealanders think about marine recreational fishing

Public perception of the urban environment: comparison of Wellington with national data

Assessment of public responses to policies designed to internalise environmental and social externalities associated with the transport sector in New Zealand

An integrated approach to the environmental and social externalities associated with the transpor... more An integrated approach to the environmental and social externalities associated with the transport sector was explored within an omnibus biennial survey of peoples' perceptions of the New Zealand environment carried out in 2006. Survey respondents were provided with information about greenhouse gas emissions, road and pollutionrelated deaths, and about direct consumer costs attributable to transport. They were then asked to evaluate four options considered most likely to result in reductions to one or more of these impacts. These options involved introducing or increasing road user charges, reducing the open road speed limit, fuel use efficiency standards, and mandatory exhaust gas quality standards for all cars. Results indicate an overall unwillingness to adopt these measures. Policy makers are nevertheless faced with the challenge of improving land transport sustainability and are therefore in the unenviable position of recommending best performing but least politically damaging policy options. To this end it appears that policies that target particular combinations of impacts are more likely to be supported than those that are more open-ended and generally aim at internalising the overall impacts of road use. However, it is also clear that vehicle users are more likely to support targeted policies that are unlikely to be the most effective in reducing these particular impacts or combinations thereof. This is because the most effective policies would involve all drivers, and have immediate impacts. Notably, however, female respondents and those using public transport were more likely to be supportive of options that would likely have the greatest overall benefits. Lessons for policy makers can be drawn from this study, including how to improve the targeting of policy options to particularly difficult but potentially influential groupings.