James F. Casey

Are tourists willing to pay additional fees to protect corals in Mexico

This paper seeks to determine if tourists visiting the Riviera Maya, Mexico, are willing to pay an entrance fee to enhance coral reef protection; and if so, how much would they pay? A discrete choice contingent valuation experiment with almost 400 visitors was used to determine a measure of compensating variation for contributing to a public trust to protect corals. Results suggest that there are significant possibilities for implementing a “coral fund” to raise revenues for coral protection programs in the Riviera Maya region of Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula. We estimate a mean willingness to pay (WTP) of over

Willingness to pay to avoid high encounter levels at dive sites in the Caribbean.

55.00. Additionally, all three estimation methods used produced relatively similar values for mean WTP, ranging from

Letter: Believe It or Not, What We Need Now Are Higher Gas Prices

42 to

Information and the subsistence farmer's decision to deforest in Latin America

58. With approximately five million visitors passing through the Cancun International Airport each year, this suggests that it may be possible to collect between

Willingness to pay for improved water service in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

100 and

THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF HIKING: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF OPPORTUNITY COST OF TIME IN RECREATIONAL DEMAND MODELS

400 million annually for coral reef management programs. Thinking very conservatively, if we take a

Willingness to accept compensation for the environmental risks of oil transport on the Amazon: A choice modeling experiment

20 fee and assume that only 50% of tourists would actually be willing to pay, that is still

Recreational SCUBA divers' willingness to pay for marine biodiversity in Barbados.

50 million left on the table annually.

Agroforestry adoption in Mexico: using Keynes to better understand farmer decision-making

This research estimates willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid high numbers of encounters with other divers at dive sites in barbados and Tobago. A survey of scuba divers from 2007 to 2010 examined demographics, experience, satisfaction with conditions (e.g., coral cover, visibility, diversity of fish and marine life, crowding), dive characteristics (e.g., divers encountered), and maximum WTP for the dive. WTP was a function of dive location, diver income, encounters, and amount paid for the dive. On average, divers may be willing to pay up to US

Deforestation and Agroforestry Adoption in Tropical Forests: Can We Generalize? Some Results from Campeche, Mexico and Rondônia, Brazil

4.51 per additional diver to avoid encounters with others. results can inform management regarding pricing and spatial planning of reef use and can aid in policies for maximizing economic returns from diving while reducing impacts of diving on reefs and diver experiences.