Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in Switzerland
We present stated preference data for improved forest management from seven Swiss municipalities in the Cantons of Grisons and Valais. The data was collected between October 2019 and February 2020 using an online questionnaire. We invited 10289 households to participate and received 939 responses. T...
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| description | We present stated preference data for improved forest management from seven Swiss municipalities in the Cantons of Grisons and Valais. The data was collected between October 2019 and February 2020 using an online questionnaire. We invited 10289 households to participate and received 939 responses. The online questionnaire consisted of two main parts – (1) an online choice experiment and (2) questions on the sociodemographic characteristics of the responding households. The choice experiment confronted households with twelve consecutive choice tasks. Each choice task consisted of three options with a varying degree of avalanche and rock fall risk reduction due to improved forest management. The options further differed with respect to the way the charges for the improved forest management are determined and assigned to the households. We additionally included a cost attribute to estimate the respondents' willingness to pay. At the end of the choice experiment we asked five de-briefing questions and eight attitudinal questions. Additionally, we asked the responding households to state their willingness to take risks. The sociodemographic characteristics collected in the second part of the questionnaire allowed us to analyse their impact on the choices we observed in the first part of the questionnaire. An analysis of the choice data and further interpretive insights are presented in the article “Determining the insurance value of ecosystems: A discrete choice study on natural hazard protection by forests”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da2b91009bc44e8da39dd664e8a0711f2022-12-21T22:48:07ZengElsevierData in Brief2352-34092020-12-0133106466Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in SwitzerlandChristian Unterberger0Roland Olschewski1Corresponding authors.; WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, SwitzerlandCorresponding authors.; WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, SwitzerlandWe present stated preference data for improved forest management from seven Swiss municipalities in the Cantons of Grisons and Valais. The data was collected between October 2019 and February 2020 using an online questionnaire. We invited 10289 households to participate and received 939 responses. The online questionnaire consisted of two main parts – (1) an online choice experiment and (2) questions on the sociodemographic characteristics of the responding households. The choice experiment confronted households with twelve consecutive choice tasks. Each choice task consisted of three options with a varying degree of avalanche and rock fall risk reduction due to improved forest management. The options further differed with respect to the way the charges for the improved forest management are determined and assigned to the households. We additionally included a cost attribute to estimate the respondents' willingness to pay. At the end of the choice experiment we asked five de-briefing questions and eight attitudinal questions. Additionally, we asked the responding households to state their willingness to take risks. The sociodemographic characteristics collected in the second part of the questionnaire allowed us to analyse their impact on the choices we observed in the first part of the questionnaire. An analysis of the choice data and further interpretive insights are presented in the article “Determining the insurance value of ecosystems: A discrete choice study on natural hazard protection by forests”.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920313482Discrete choiceEcosystem servicesClimate change adaptationResilience |
| spellingShingle | Christian Unterberger Roland Olschewski Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in Switzerland Data in Brief Discrete choice Ecosystem services Climate change adaptation Resilience |
| title | Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in Switzerland |
| title_full | Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in Switzerland |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in Switzerland |
| title_short | Stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in Switzerland |
| title_sort | stated preference data on the insurance value of forests in switzerland |
| topic | Discrete choice Ecosystem services Climate change adaptation Resilience |
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