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

Abstract

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. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998