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Legg, Peter, Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Bark, Rosalind H. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-9322, Tocock, Mark, Tinch, Dugald and Rose, John M.
(2020)
Cultural values, deep mining operations and the use of surplus groundwater for towns, landscapes and jobs.
Ecological Economics, 178.
ISSN 0921-8009
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Abstract
Trade-offs involving land use change, cultural values, water resources and jobs are critically important to understand the opportunity cost of resource extraction. Stated preference techniques can be particularly useful in eliciting the non-market values expressed as trade-offs. This study assesses preferences over the management of groundwater released from deep mining operations in Western Australia. A discrete choice experiment is used to investigate the trade-offs Australians are prepared to make for remote economic, ecological and cultural goods against costs. The results suggest that there is heterogeneity of preferences as indicated by a three-class structure of a latent class model. One class supports the use of released groundwater across a range of economic, ecological and cultural uses modelled: extending town water supply, restoring rangeland habitat, creating jobs for Aboriginal Australians and preserving cultural waterholes. The smallest class supports all these uses except job creation and the final class only supports preserving cultural waterholes. These results illustrate public attitudes towards cultural values as well as wider environmental policy tensions between instrumental and intrinsic values.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | aboriginal cultural values,biodiverse habitat,discrete choice experiment,groundwater,town water supplies,willingness to pay,environmental science(all),economics and econometrics,sdg 6 - clean water and sanitation,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2020 23:54 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 06:47 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76739 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106808 |
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