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French forest owners’ stated preferences for ash-recycling – A discrete choice experiment

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Wood fuels are an important energy source in meeting EU’s renewable energy targets. The increased demand for wood fuels has been seen as an opportunity to increase the profitability of forest management by exploiting hitherto unexploited resources in France. However, the increased use of wood fuel generates also several environmental issues, including the export of nutrients through residues and stump harvests and thereby potential negative impact on forests’ long-term forest productivity. Ash-recycling has been suggested a sustainable remedy for the loss of nutrients. While ash-recycling in forests is not currently allowed in France, law-makers are considering new legislation allowing ash-recycling in forest. The present study analyses forest owners’ stated preferences for ash-recycling based a survey of forest owners in three French regions carried out the fall 2016. Applying a discrete multi-attribute choice experiment we estimate forest owners’ willingness to pay for having ash being spread in their forests. We find that forest owners, in average, have a positive willingness to pay for ash-recycling in their forest but it depends on the applied technology, origin of the ash and the expected impact on productivity of forests as well as the characteristics of their forests.
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hal-01607644 , version 1 (03-10-2017)

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Jens Abildtrup, Laurent Saint-André, Anne Stenger-Letheux. French forest owners’ stated preferences for ash-recycling – A discrete choice experiment. 23. Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8). Athènes, GRC., Jun 2017, Athens, Greece. ⟨hal-01607644⟩
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