Economic value of mitigation of plant invaders in a subsistence economy : incorporating labour as a mode of payment Rai, Rajesh Kumar and Scarborough, Helen 2013, Economic value of mitigation of plant invaders in a subsistence economy : incorporating labour as a mode of payment, Environment and development economics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 225-244, doi: 10.1017/S1355770X1200037X. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Economic value of mitigation of plant invaders in a subsistence economy : incorporating labour as a mode of payment Author(s) Rai, Rajesh Kumar Scarborough, Helen orcid.org/0000-0002-0562-1987 Journal name Environment and development economics Volume number 18 Issue number 2 Start page 225 End page 244 Total pages 20 Publisher Cambridge University Press Place of publication Cambridge, England Publication date 2013 ISSN 1469-4395 1355-770X Keyword(s) mitigation labour Summary This paper presents the analysis of a choice experiment designed to estimate willingness-to-pay (WTP) to mitigate damages caused by invasive plant species in a rural community of Nepal. In order to address the cash constraints problem in a subsistence economy, two payment attributes, labour contribution and membership fee, were included in the choice sets. The results reveal that rural farmers have significant WTP for forest management activities, in terms of both cash and labour contributions. The results also suggest that rural farmers value their time in this context at a different rate from the current wage rate. Language eng DOI 10.1017/S1355770X1200037X Field of Research 140205 Environment and Resource Economics Socio Economic Objective 960409 Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Mountain and High Country Environments HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article HERDC collection year 2012 Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30049913 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 18 Dec 2012, 11:03:35 EST Tue, 18 Dec 2012, 15:27:46 EST Tue, 18 Dec 2012, 15:29:08 EST Wed, 03 Apr 2013, 14:11:13 EST Wed, 03 Apr 2013, 14:13:08 EST Mon, 06 Jan 2014, 15:49:38 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 28 times in TR Web of Science Cited 33 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 567 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 18 Dec 2012, 11:03:15 EST by Beatrice Fitzgerald

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