Abstract
A survey was designed to elicit donations for delaying inevitable aquatic invasions of inland water bodies within a respondent's region. Surveys were distributed throughout the United States. Assuming all aquatic species groups invade simultaneously, our results suggest that the average person was willing to make a one-time payment of $48 to delay low to high impacts one year (aggregates to nearly $4 billion for all U.S. households). By comparison, the federal government currently (2006) invests $394 million annually for all invasive species (aquatic and terrestrial) prevention and early detection/rapid response.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 632-640 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Ecological Economics |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 15 2010 |
Keywords
- Contingent valuation
- Delaying the inevitable
- Invasive species
- Protection
- Survey