Willingness-to-pay for restoration of water quality services across geo-political boundaries

摘要: Abstract Establishing the value attached to ecosystem services provides instrumental information in planning of conservation initiatives ensure forest sustainability. This study fills a gap literature regarding associated with for which their direct use can be challenged by distance and geo-political boundaries. We estimated US residents' willingness-to-pay (WTP) restoration degraded temperate out-of-state tropical out-of-the-country forested watersheds improved water quality under hypothetical payment (PES) programs. Factors influencing WTP were using bivariate probit model mean values adjusted self-reported certainty responses. Transboundary economic decay was reflected on lower households' annual (US$ 124.15–238.30) than 131.70–256.79) watershed ecosystems. Bequest existence non-use motivations most strongly international PES programs, respectively. Other salient explanatory variables included program cost households, age, sex, income, household size, political party identification, attitudes towards PES, affiliation environmental group experience comparable natural resources. offers evidence positive prospects transboundary programs restore geographically delimited driven existence, option bequest motivations.