Forest Owners Motivations for Adopting Programs of Biodiversity Protection

GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne Working Paper 1619, May 2016

20 Pages Posted: 31 May 2016

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Philippe Polome

University of Lyon 2 - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE)

Date Written: May 30, 2016

Abstract

The results of a survey of private forest owners on adoption of a number of current programs, that include biodiversity protection to some degree, are presented. Adoption amounts to 22% for all the programs jointly, and is shown to depend on economic, social and ethical motives, with significant crowding-out between the economic and ethical motives, but not with social motives. Adoption of each program is strongly negatively correlated to each other. Nearly no respondent adopted the Natura 2000 program. The results constitute a test of the “reputational crowding-out” theory of Bénabou and Tirole (2006).

Keywords: Non-indutrial private forest owner, biodiversity program, motivation crowding-out, adoption decision

JEL Classification: C64, H41, Q23, Q28, Z13

Suggested Citation

Polome, Philippe, Forest Owners Motivations for Adopting Programs of Biodiversity Protection (May 30, 2016). GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne Working Paper 1619, May 2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2786605 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2786605

Philippe Polome (Contact Author)

University of Lyon 2 - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE) ( email )

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