Water resource management in New Zealand: Jobs or algal blooms?

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dc.contributor.authorMarsh, Dan
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-21T02:51:28Z
dc.date.available2012-06-21T02:51:28Z
dc.date.copyright2012-10
dc.date.issued2012-10
dc.description.abstractNew Zealand faces a choice between environmental improvement and dairy industry profitability and employment, since improved water quality in lakes and rivers may require measures that will reduce net farm profit. Environmental valuation studies often consider preferences for employment but rarely focus specifically on the effect of job losses on respondent preferences for environmental improvement. A choice experiment was used to investigate people's willingness to pay for water quality improvements in a typical dairy catchment in the Waikato region of New Zealand. It was found that respondents would be willing to pay for water that is safer for swimming with improvements in clarity and ecological health, but are concerned about job losses, even when they do not expect to be directly affected. This may be explained by the concept of sociality, whereby the influence of direct interpersonal interaction on human behaviour, affects choice behaviour. Findings from this study and ongoing research should allow decision makers to consider both the costs and the benefits of different levels of water quality improvements, so allowing policy makers to identify the most cost effective options for achieving any given improvement in water quality.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationMarsh, D. (2012). Water resource management in New Zealand: Jobs or algal blooms? Journal of Environmental Management, 109, 33-42.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.04.026en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/6416
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevieren_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Environmental Managementen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Environmental Management
dc.relation.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479712002150en_NZ
dc.subjectwater qualityen_NZ
dc.subjectnon market valuationen_NZ
dc.subjectchoice modellingen_NZ
dc.subjectemploymenten_NZ
dc.titleWater resource management in New Zealand: Jobs or algal blooms?en_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page33en_NZ
pubs.elements-id37688
pubs.end-page42en_NZ
pubs.volume109en_NZ
uow.identifier.article-noCen_NZ
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