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Download or read book Public Preferences and Willingness-To-Pay for Forest Conservation Programs That Protect Water Quality written by Melissa M. Kreye and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different levels of a monthly utility tax, how the program was implemented and program outcomes. Trust in government and biocentric attitudes towards forests also predicted WTP. To validate the results of the web survey I conducted an empirical investigation of voting behavior on local referendums to protect rural lands and water quality in the Eastern U.S held over the last 24 years. Results found the likelihood of a yes vote was driven by characteristics of the respondent and the type and amount of information presented in the referendum statement. In summary, the work presented in this dissertation suggest that public support and WTP for forest conservation programs is likely not independent of program design, which has implications for WTP/WTA estimation and reliance on existing studies to inform policy decisions and policy formation.