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Moose Hunting Values in Sweden Now and Two Decades Ago: The Swedish Hunters Revisited

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This paper is based on two national contingent valuation studies dealing with the extent and economic values of hunting in Sweden. The first valuation study was conducted in 1987 and the second in 2006. Both the game resource and the hunter community have undergone changes in the two decades covered by the surveys. An important purpose of the latter survey was to repeat relevant parts of the former one, which created a rare opportunity to compare valuations covering a very long time span. Moose hunting value and its determinants were compared between the two studies, showing that significant changes have taken place. Our analysis suggests caution in using results from old contingent valuation studies for e.g. benefits transfer exercises.

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Abbreviations

CVM:

Contingent valuation method

EV :

Equivalent variation

WTP:

Willingness to pay

SEK:

Swedish kronor

OLS:

Ordinary least squares

MLE:

Maximum likelihood estimation

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  1. Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Box 49, 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden

    Mattias Boman & Leif Mattsson

  2. Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), 901 83, Umeå, Sweden

    Göran Ericsson

  3. CERE, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Umeå University, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden

    Bengt Kriström

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Boman, M., Mattsson, L., Ericsson, G. et al. Moose Hunting Values in Sweden Now and Two Decades Ago: The Swedish Hunters Revisited. Environ Resource Econ 50, 515–530 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-011-9480-z

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