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Public Preferences for Climate Change Adaptation Policies in Greece: A Choice Experiment Application on River Uses

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Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy

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Climate change is a multidimensional issue with serious environmental and socio-economic implications. Mountain areas, in particular, show high vulnerability to climate change. Among others, alterations in temperature and precipitation can severely affect freshwater ecosystems, in terms of both quality and quantity. As a result, services provided by river ecosystems will deteriorate, affecting economic activities and social welfare. This study comprises one of the first attempts to monetize non-market benefits of adaptation to climate change impacts on mountainous rivers. In this direction, a choice experiment was conducted using a face-to-face survey to examine the preferences of Konitsa’s residents, a mountain settlement located in the Prefecture of Ioannina (Greece). Simple and extended Conditional Logit models were calibrated in order to analyze trade-offs of choices and to estimate the welfare effects of climate change adaptation measures. The resulting values and reliability considerations indicate that people support adaptation actions, being willing to pay for all river services.

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  1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Dimitrios Andreopoulos, Francesco Comiti & Christian Fischer

  2. School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Dimitrios Damigos

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  1. Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

    Constantin Zopounidis

  2. Department of Marketing, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Nikos Kalogeras

  3. School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Konstadinos Mattas

  4. Center for Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, The Netherlands

    Gert van Dijk

  5. Business Economics & Management, Mediterrean Agronomic Inst. of Chania, Chania, Greece

    George Baourakis

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Andreopoulos, D., Damigos, D., Comiti, F., Fischer, C. (2014). Public Preferences for Climate Change Adaptation Policies in Greece: A Choice Experiment Application on River Uses. In: Zopounidis, C., Kalogeras, N., Mattas, K., van Dijk, G., Baourakis, G. (eds) Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy. Cooperative Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06635-6_9

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