| dc.creator | Cerda Jiménez, Claudia | |
| dc.creator | Barkmann, Jan | |
| dc.creator | Marggraf, Rainer | |
| dc.date | 2014-12-15T14:06:14Z | |
| dc.date | 2014-12-15T14:06:14Z | |
| dc.date | 2014-12-15T14:06:14Z | |
| dc.date | 2014 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-12T15:08:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-12T15:08:30Z | |
| dc.identifier | Reg Environ Change (2014) 14:1517–1531 | |
| dc.identifier | DOI 10.1007/s10113-014-0591-2 | |
| dc.identifier | https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/120384 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/249101 | |
| dc.description | The island of Navarino, Chile, located at the
extreme southern end of the Americas, is one of the few
regions in the world with undivided and only slightly
transformed temperate forests. Currently, fundamental
issues are being addressed, such as how local fuel wood
demands will be met without destroying primary forests
and how a sustainable tourism industry may be developed.
This study aims to inform these planning processes by
providing data on the economic valuation of several nonmarket
benefits provided by the temperate ecosystems of
Navarino Island that have relevance to the local population.
We focus this valuation on landscape esthetics, nature
access restrictions, esthetic and ethno-symbolic benefits at
the species level and the existence value of non-vascular
endemic species. A choice experiment was applied to a
sample of local residents (n = 230). Decisions about future
development strategies were influenced by landscape
esthetics being threatened by progressing levels of tourist
infrastructure, nature access restrictions in favor of both
economic and conservationist concerns, continued visits of
an ethno-culturally important hummingbird, the protection
of a moss endemic to the sub-Antarctic forests and species
diversity. From a non-market valuation perspective, local
residents favor a low-impact tourism development scenario.
Little is known about the monetary value of Chile’s
temperate forests. Knowledge of the economic value of
Navarino’s temperate forests facilitates the understanding
of local natural resource management at the microlevel and
assists in formulating conservation policies at the regional
and national levels. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile | |
| dc.subject | Choice experiment | |
| dc.title | Non-market economic valuation of the benefits provided by temperate ecosystems at the extreme south of the Americas | |
| dc.type | Artículo de revista | |
