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Why Give up Money for the Baltic Sea? – Motives for People's Willingness (or Reluctance) to Pay

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A contingent valuation survey about a reduction of the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea provided data about respondents' motives for their answers to the willingness to pay question. A categorization of the motives allowed an identification of protesters against the valuation scenario. The categorization also illustrated that a teleological ethical perspective is not shared by all respondents and that some respondents perceive human indirect use of ecosystems.

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  1. Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, and Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, S-10405, Stockholm, Sweden

    Tore Söderqvist

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Söderqvist, T. Why Give up Money for the Baltic Sea? – Motives for People's Willingness (or Reluctance) to Pay. Environmental and Resource Economics 12, 249–254 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008261509412

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