Understand Willingness to Pay for Pollination and User Sense of Place Connections on the Eastern Shore

The global decline of pollinators, insects and animals that assist in pollination and fertilizing plants, poses a great risk to global food supply. This study investigates if people have preferences for a program to abate decline in a region along the East Coast of the United States. A survey is used to investigate these preferences and connections to the region to understand if individual connections can explain preferences. The majority of people were found to not have preferences to help increase pollinator abundance. Additionally, measures of connection to the region were found to be insignificant in explain individual preferences.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agricultural and Applied Economics

Department dc:contributor.department

Agricultural and Applied Economics

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Johnson, Wesley James

Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair

• Boyle, Kevin J.
• Sorice, Michael G.

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Stephenson, Stephen Kurt

• Willingness to pay
• pollination
• Bobwhite quail
• sense of place
• place attachment
• place satisfaction
• place meanings
• rootedness
• mixed logit
• conditional logit

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:13213

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/79963