{"id":2675,"date":"2015-08-03T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T14:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2018-09-13T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T08:53:31","slug":"whos-a-pretty-parrot-then-public-preferences-for-native-and-non-native-species-across-western-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2015\/08\/03\/whos-a-pretty-parrot-then-public-preferences-for-native-and-non-native-species-across-western-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s a pretty parrot then? Public preferences for native and non-native species across Western Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
Principal Investigator:<\/th>\nDr Zoe Davies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Project dates:<\/th>\n2015-2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Funding:<\/th>\nUniversity of Kent Faculty of Social Sciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Collaborators:<\/th>\nDr Thomas Lundhede<\/a> (University of Copenhagen), Dr Martin Dallimer<\/a> (University of Leeds)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Non-native species are \u2018invasive\u2019 if they have negative environmental or economic impacts. Of the 10,000 non-native species across Europe, 15% are considered invasive and cost ~\u20ac12 billion to manage annually. Indeed, invasive species are deemed to be one of the main threats to biodiversity globally. However, the human well-being benefits that non-native species bring to a country, in terms of how the general public might value them, have thus far been overlooked by the scientists and policy-makers charged with managing them. For example, the rose ringed parakeet now presents a considerable risk to Europe\u2019s agricultural economy and wildlife (please see Parrotnet<\/a> for more information on SAC research in this area). These issues have prompted calls to cull the species, yet many people want to see\/interact with the pretty green parakeets in parks\/gardens and actively encourage their presence. This represents a complex socio-environmental conflict. As such, there is a compelling case to quantify public preferences for non-native invasive species like the parakeet, benchmarked against native species (which can also be pests), to provide novel and useful insights to inform policy responses.<\/p>\n

Choice experiments, a stated preference non-market valuation technique, will be used to quantify the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in population sizes of morphologically similar pairs of native and non-native species. The study will be run across western European counties where the study species are present\/absent, allowing us to explore how WTP may vary.<\/p>\n

The broad aims of research are to understand:<\/p>\n

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  1. If people value species dependent on whether they are native or non-native<\/li>\n
  2. The extent to which species are valued based on their visual attractiveness<\/li>\n
  3. Whether people are WTP for non-native species, even when they are known to have environmental\/economic impacts<\/li>\n
  4. How the three points above vary across western Europe, if at all<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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