Stated Preferences
Survey techniques where we ask respondents to choose among hypothetical contrasted alternatives and deduct their preferences for non-market googs or specific ecosystems services.
Description
Behavioral experiments based on choices proposed to agri-environmental policy stakeholders improve our ability to assess the demand for technologies, for ecosystem services associated with land use scenarios or public policy modalities (e.g. Payments for Environmental Services PES, insurance, etc.).
Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are used to explain respondents' economic behavior and obtain their preferences through controlled experiments based on hypothetical scenarios. Using a survey format, respondents are asked to make choices between different versions of policy instruments, or different features of socio-hydrosystems, which are described by their characteristics or attributes. The combinations of characteristics/attributes are proposed to respondents according to a predefined experimental design that maximizes the reliability of the calculations of trade-offs made by respondents between the different attributes. Variations on the DCE technique have been developed and observe various types of choices: most and least favored scenario choices (best-worst scaling), ranking of options, etc.
Our use
The PRECOS team has developed numerous studies using DCEs. In particular, we have worked on preferences for various ecosystem services of hydro-ecosystems. In addition, we have also worked on farmers' preferences for technological traits of techniques that preserve natural resources, and on some water-related policies.
Productions
- Non-monetary incentives to increase enrollment in payments for environmental services, 2023
- Can collective conditionality improve agri-environmental contracts? From lab to field experiments, 2023
- Identify Lao farmers' goals and their ranking using best–worst scaling experiment and scale–adjusted latent class models, 2022
- A choice experiment approach to evaluate maize farmers' decision-making processes in Lao PDR, 2022
- Diverse stakeholder perspectives and ecosystem services ranking: Application of the Q-methodology to Hawane Dam and Nature Reserve in Eswatini, 2022
- Are Households Willing to Finance the Cost of Individual Water Supply? Case Study in Central Tunisia, 2021
- Introducing Nature into Cities or Preserving Existing Peri-Urban Ecosystems? Analysis of Preferences in a Rapidly Urbanizing Catchment, 2021
- Farmers' preference for cropping systems and the development of sustainable intensification: a choice experiment approach, 2020
- Context matters: Agronomic field monitoring and participatory research to identify criteria of farming system sustainability in South-East Asia, 2020
- Valuing a diversity of ecosystem services: The way forward to protect strategic groundwater resources for the future?, 2019
- Urban consumer perceptions of food in Myanmar: between tradition and modernity, 2019
- Attributes determining consumer preference for organic rice in Bangkok, Thailand, 2018
- Compensating Environmental Losses Versus Creating Environmental Gains : Implications for Biodiversity Offsets, 2017
- Integrated assessment of economic benefits of groundwater improvement with contingent valuation, 2016
- Conception d’un paiement pour services environnementaux en pâturages collectifs. Une expérimentation des choix, 2016
- Defining groundwater remediation objectives with cost-benefit analysis: does it work?, 2014
Members who used it
Marine Favre , Cécile Hérivaux , Damien Jourdain , Philippe Le Coent , Sylvie Morardet , Jean-Daniel Rinaudo