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标题：Cumulative Effects Planning: Finding the Balance Using Choice Experiments
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作者：Amanda Spyce ; Marian Weber ; Wiktor Adamowicz 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：1
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：Cumulative effects management requires understanding the environmental impacts of development and findingthe right balance between social, economic, and environmental objectives. We explored the use of choice experiments to elicitpreferences for competing social, economic, and ecological outcomes in order to rank land and resource development options.The experiments were applied in the Southeast Yukon, a remote and resource rich region in Northern Canada with a relativelylarge aboriginal population. The case study addresses two issues of concern in cumulative effects management: the willingnessto discount future environmental costs for immediate development benefits, and the existence of limits of acceptable change forcommunities affected by development. These issues are thought to be particularly relevant for First Nations in Northern Canadawhere cultural identify is tied to the land and continuity of the community is an important value. We found that residents of theSoutheast Yukon value benefits from both development and conservation and must make trade-offs between these competingobjectives in evaluating land use scenarios. Based on the preference information we evaluated four land use scenarios.Conservation scenarios ranked higher than development scenarios, however, there was significant heterogeneity aroundpreferences for conservation outcomes suggesting a low degree of consensus around this result. We also found that residentsdid not discount the future highlighting the importance of intergenerational equity in resource development decisions. We didnot find evidence of development thresholds or limits of acceptable change. Interestingly we found no difference in preferencesbetween the aboriginal and non-aboriginal populations
关键词：aboriginal preferences; choice experiments; cumulative effects; Northern Canada