Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321710 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Bio-based and Applied Economics (BAE) [ISSN:] 2280-6172 [Volume:] 9 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 171-200
Publisher: 
Firenze University Press, Florence
Abstract: 
This study adopts a choice modelling framework to disentangle individual preferences for rural landscape attributes based on the viewing of photographs of the Irish countryside. Using ordered logit and standard panel and pooled regression models, societal preferences are quantified for rural landscape attributes, grouped into natural, agricultural and human-built non-agricultural categories. The preferences of 430 individuals towards 50 rural landscape photographs are analysed. The results show positive preferences for landscapes with natural attributes such as cliffs, mountainous features, water and native trees, as well as preferences for neat/managed agricultural landscapes and traditional human-built features such as stone walls and planted hedgerows. The study shows negative preferences for features such as flooding, unmanaged landscapes, industrial turf cutting and mechanised features such as wind turbines. There is significant preference heterogeneity observed across the sample particularity across the urban-rural residency divide. It is argued that analysing preferences for specific attributes of landscapes rather than preferences for individual landscape photographs allows for further applications particularly in the area of simulation.
Subjects: 
Rural landscapes
choice modelling
ordered logit
attribute preference heterogeneity
JEL: 
Q18
Q24
Q57
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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