Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in Switzerland

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We present stated preference data for improved forest management measures from seven Swiss municipalities in the Cantons of Grisons and Valais. The data was collected between October 2019 and February 2020 using an online questionnaire. We invited 10289 households to participate and received 939 responses. The online questionnaire consisted of two main parts: (i) an online choice experiment and (ii) questions on the sociodemographic characteristics of the responding households. The choice experiment confronted households with twelve consecutive choice tasks. Each choice task consisted of three options with a varying degree of avalanche and rock fall risk reduction due to improved forest management. The options further differed with respect to the way the costs for the improved forest management are allocated and the way they are calculated. We additionally provided each of the options with a cost attribute, allowing for the calculation of willingness to pay measures. At the end of the choice experiment we asked five de-briefing questions and eight attitudinal questions. Additionally, we asked the responding households to state their willingness to take risks. The sociodemographic characteristics collected in the second part of the questionnaire allow for an analysis of the impact they have on the choices we observed in the first part of the questionnaire.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.175
Metadata Access https://www.envidat.ch/api/action/package_show?id=fa79be39-5a6a-442f-a423-dd23113adb98
Provenance
Creator Christian, Unterberger,; Roland, Olschewski,
Publisher EnviDat
Publication Year 2020
Funding Reference Swiss National Science Foundation SNF, 407340_172399
Rights wsl-data; WSL Data Policy
OpenAccess true
Contact envidat(at)wsl.ch
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Version 1.0
Discipline Environmental Sciences
Spatial Coverage (5.956W, 45.818S, 10.492E, 47.808N); Switzerland
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-02-15T00:00:00Z