Advancing Marine Policy Toward Ecosystem-Based Management by Eliciting Public Preferences

摘要: AbstractThe implementation of marine protected areas, such as reserves and customary fishing is considered an important step toward advancing ecosystem-based management (EBM), but has proven difficult due to resistance from well-organized interests. This raises the question how values less well-organised parties can be brought into political decision-making process. We summarise results a discrete choice survey general public in New Zealand that elicits willingness make tradeoffs among taxes four socio-ecological attributes: biodiversity, maintenance Maori practices, restrictions on commercial recreational fishing. apply cluster analysis, which provides information about ‘market shares’ respondent preferences, derive estimates average pay for various policy scenarios. Both analyses reveal broad-scale support conservation biodiversity cultural providing quantifiab...