Valuation of market and non-market values of ocean

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project Area: New Ocean Paradigm on Its Biogeochemistry, Ecosystem and Sustainable Use
• Project/Area Number: 24121009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Review Section: Complex systems
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Kurokura Hisashi 東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科(農学部), 名誉教授 (50134507)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 有路 昌彦 近畿大学, 農学部, 准教授 (40512265) ; 脇田 和美 東海大学, 海洋学部, 准教授 (60734902)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TSUMUNE Daisuke 電力中央研究所・環境科学研究所, 上席研究員 (10371494) ; SUGIYAMA Masahiro 東京大学, 政策ビジョン研究センター, 准教授 (20503428)
• Research Collaborator: OISHI Taro 福岡工業大学, 社会環境学部, 准教授 ; MANAGI Shunsuke 九州大学, 大学院・工学研究院, 教授 ; SHEN Zhonghua LDWC International Business Support Co. ltd
• Project Period (FY): 2012-06-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 生態系サービス / 海洋 / 貢献意志 / 公共心 / 関係性欲求

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Utilities of ecosystem services are diverse among human beings depending on their characters and experiences. Presuming that characters are main factors of incentives of human beings to contribute conservation of marine ecosystem service, difference in characters of respondents were compared among groups which were categorized by differences in utilities expressed in a choice experiment using web questionnaire. People who has highest willing ness to pay to conservation of marine ecosystem service had highest public sprits and appetite to connection with others including non-human beings, and people who has no willingness to pay for conservation of marine ecosystem service had lowest public spirit and appetite to connection to the others.

Free Research Field

水産生産科学