Valuing the commons: An international study on the recreational benefits of the Baltic Sea
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Valuing the commons : An international study on the recreational benefits of the Baltic Sea. / Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Ahtiainen, Heini; Artell, Janne; Budziński, Wiktor; Hasler, Berit; Hasselström, Linus; Meyerhoff, Jürgen; Nõmmann, Tea; Semeniene, Daiva; Söderqvist, Tore; Tuhkanen, Heidi; Lankia, Tuija; Vanags, Alf; Zandersen, Marianne; Zylicz, Tomasz; Hanley, Nick.
In: Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 156, 01.06.2015, p. 209-217.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Valuing the commons
T2 - An international study on the recreational benefits of the Baltic Sea
AU - Czajkowski, Mikołaj
AU - Ahtiainen, Heini
AU - Artell, Janne
AU - Budziński, Wiktor
AU - Hasler, Berit
AU - Hasselström, Linus
AU - Meyerhoff, Jürgen
AU - Nõmmann, Tea
AU - Semeniene, Daiva
AU - Söderqvist, Tore
AU - Tuhkanen, Heidi
AU - Lankia, Tuija
AU - Vanags, Alf
AU - Zandersen, Marianne
AU - Zylicz, Tomasz
AU - Hanley, Nick
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - The Baltic Sea provides benefits to all of the nine nations along its coastline, with some 85 million people living within the catchment area. Achieving improvements in water quality requires international cooperation. The likelihood of effective cooperation is known to depend on the distribution across countries of the benefits and costs of actions needed to improve water quality. In this paper, we estimate the benefits associated with recreational use of the Baltic Sea in current environmental conditions using a travel cost approach, based on data from a large, standardized survey of households in each of the 9 Baltic Sea states. Both the probability of engaging in recreation (participation) and the number of visits people make are modeled. A large variation in the number of trips and the extent of participation is found, along with large differences in current annual economic benefits from Baltic Sea recreation. The total annual recreation benefits are close to 15 billion EUR. Under a water quality improvement scenario, the proportional increases in benefits range from 7 to 18% of the current annual benefits across countries. Depending on how the costs of actions are distributed, this could imply difficulties in achieving more international cooperation to achieve such improvements.
AB - The Baltic Sea provides benefits to all of the nine nations along its coastline, with some 85 million people living within the catchment area. Achieving improvements in water quality requires international cooperation. The likelihood of effective cooperation is known to depend on the distribution across countries of the benefits and costs of actions needed to improve water quality. In this paper, we estimate the benefits associated with recreational use of the Baltic Sea in current environmental conditions using a travel cost approach, based on data from a large, standardized survey of households in each of the 9 Baltic Sea states. Both the probability of engaging in recreation (participation) and the number of visits people make are modeled. A large variation in the number of trips and the extent of participation is found, along with large differences in current annual economic benefits from Baltic Sea recreation. The total annual recreation benefits are close to 15 billion EUR. Under a water quality improvement scenario, the proportional increases in benefits range from 7 to 18% of the current annual benefits across countries. Depending on how the costs of actions are distributed, this could imply difficulties in achieving more international cooperation to achieve such improvements.
KW - International public good
KW - Recreational value
KW - The Baltic Sea
KW - Travel cost method
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84926178297&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.03.038
DO - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.03.038
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25846001
AN - SCOPUS:84926178297
VL - 156
SP - 209
EP - 217
JO - Journal of Environmental Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Management
SN - 0301-4797
ER -
ID: 324692047