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NERP TE Project 12.3 - Relative social and economic values of residents and tourists in the WTWHA, 2012-2014 (JCU)

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The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (WTWHA) is famous for its wildlife, biodiversity and natural beauty, but none of these important assets are bought or sold in the market place, so none are explicitly ‘valued’ with a price. Recognising that absence of price does not mean absence of value, this project seeks to improve our understanding of the importance of these non-market ‘values’ to a variety of different stakeholders. How important is a beautiful view or a cassowary to the community, to tourists and to the tourism industry? How would people feel if there fewer (or more) opportunities to enjoy those beautiful views or to observe these charismatic birds? The project will provide environmental managers throughout the world with an illustrated, easy to understand, means of assessing the importance of these types of non-market values to a variety of different stakeholder groups in World Heritage listed forests and other scenic environments. This project will: 1. Develop a survey to assess the relative importance of core 'values' of the WTWHA (e.g. cassowaries, mahogany sugar gliders, waterfalls, aesthetics) with other ‘values’ (e.g. development of roads, employment, or income) so that managers are able to assess trade-offs between core WTWHA attributes and other ‘values’.

Distribute the questionaire to residents (householders) throughout the WTWHA and to tourists at the Cairns airport at different times of the year (to control for seasonality of data) in the form of an exit survey;

To analyse the results using multivariate analysis to measure the satisfaction and relative value across different stakeholder groups and to use insights from this analysis to identify priorities for conservation and marketing.

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Title NERP TE Project 12.3 - Relative social and economic values of residents and tourists in the WTWHA, 2012-2014 (JCU)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/11886dda-d2e9-4aa4-8fa7-275c018b2555
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
natalie.stoeckl@jcu.edu.au
Reference Period 01/07/2012 -
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "NERP TE Project 12.3 - Relative social and economic values of residents and tourists in the WTWHA, 2012-2014 (JCU)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/nerp-te-project-12-3-relative-social-and-economic-values-of-residents-and-tourists-in-the-wtwha1