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    Assessing public preferences for deep sea ecosystem conservation: a choice experiment in Norway and Scotland
    (Taylor & Francis Group, 2021) Ankamah-Yeboah, I.; Armstrong, C.W.; Hynes, S.; Xuan, B.B.; Simpson, K.
    Recent events around the world have revealed varying degrees of public support for climate change and environmental regulation. Applying a latent class logit model, this study investigates Norwegian and Scottish public’s economic support for proposed deep sea management policies for novel attributes, identifying the presence of preference heterogeneity. Marine litter and health of fish stocks were the attributes with the highest values in absolute terms. This was followed by the size of the protected area coverage, whilst the creation of jobs was the least valued. The results highlight public support for the further collective action required by the EU in moving beyond the 2020 objective of achieving good environmental status of Europe’s seas, despite the low WTP values of the minority classes in each country
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    Have environmental preferences and willingness to pay remained stable before and during the global Covid-19 shock?
    (Ecological Economics, 2021) Hynes, S.; Xuan, B.B.; Ankamah-Yeboah, I.; Simpson, K.; Armstrong, C.W.; Tinch, R.; Ressurreiç˜ao, A.
    This study tests the stability of environmental preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) values using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) across three countries pre and post the peak of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. A DCE examining the public’s preferences for alternative environmental management plans on the high seas, in the area of the Flemish Cap, was carried out in Canada, Scotland and Norway in late 2019 and was rerun in early May 2020 shortly after the Covid-19 pandemic had officially peaked in the three countries. The same choice set sequence is tested across the two periods, using different but nationally representative samples in each case. Entropy balancing, a multivariate reweighting method, is used to achieve covariate balance between the pre and post Covid samples in the analysis. The results suggest that both preferences and WTP remain relatively stable in the face of a major public health crisis and economic upheaval.