Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250141 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 974
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Economists have neglected place attachment as a potential explanation for people's preferences for environmental goods. We conducted the first discrete choice experiment to assess the place attachment concept in the valuation of and response to the place-specific environmental impact from a proposed wind farm in Norway. Place attachment increases required compensation for accepting the wind farm, strengthens resistance, and leads to a higher propensity to systematically choose the status quo option of no wind farm in the discrete choice experiment. This finding suggests that the so-called "not-in-my-backyard" (NIMBY) effect should be recognized as a rational response when people place a high value on local environmental amenities, including place identity and a sense of place.
Subjects: 
Place attachment
sense of place
NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard)
discrete choice experiment
cultural ecosystem services
wind energy
JEL: 
Q40
Q51
Q57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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