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Title Reshaping preferences over coastal and marine environment. Evaluating temporal effects on preferences raised by information campaigns
ID_Doc 19801
Authors Bithas, K; Latinopoulos, D; Mentis, C; Chatzivasileiadis, T
Title Reshaping preferences over coastal and marine environment. Evaluating temporal effects on preferences raised by information campaigns
Year 2023
Published
DOI 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106740
Abstract The present study attempts to evaluate an allegedly promising instrument of environmental policy: public information campaigns for raising awareness, as reflected by enhanced environmental preferences. We evaluate an intensive campaign addressing plastic pollution in a coastal and marine environment, an issue of high environmental importance which is increasingly attracting public interest. Using stated preference surveys, we evaluate the effects of the campaign on preferences for ecosystem services and environmental goods. Our focus lies in the temporal effects across seasons, inducing different ecosystem services, approximating the effects of information on use and non-use values.Our findings indicate that systematic provision of information can enhance preferences and, although a timedecay effect exists, awareness remains significantly enhanced after the end of the campaign albeit not uniformly across different (use and non-use) values. As the impacts on preferences are subject to variation of seasonal experience with ecosystems - implying variation in the intensity of use - additional to a time-decay effect, it emerges that although information is a necessary instrument of environmental policy, it cannot be a sufficient one. An effective policy, addressing the needs of future generations, also requires instruments that give economic signals (taxes) and constrain preferences (standards) with information provision enhancing their impacts.
Author Keywords Environmental preferences; Environmental awareness; Public information campaign; Plastic pollution; Non -market instruments; Behavioral economics
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:001048238500001
WoS Category Oceanography; Water Resources
Research Area Oceanography; Water Resources
PDF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106740
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