ABSTRACT

Determining social values for protecting coastal assets, including coastal parks, beaches and foreshores, is important because of potential losses with climate change impacts. In a case study application in Victoria, Australia, the travel cost method was applied to value the use of camping parks by visitors, and the choice modelling technique was applied to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) of visitors and residents to avoid future losses in foreshore campground access and beach width, through protection and adaptation efforts. While both visitors and residents had similar values for park and campsite, and beach protection, residents valued beach protection as more important whereas visitors placed greater importance in protecting parks and campsites. Visitor values were higher for sites and beaches closer to metropolitan Melbourne. These results provide government agencies and coastal managers with better information about protection values for low lying coastal assets and will enable more informed decisions to be made about investing in coastal protection and the management of specific resources in the face of sea level rise and climate threats.

摘要

由于气候变化影响的潜在损失，确定保护沿海资产（包括沿海公园、海滩和前滨）的社会价值很重要。在澳大利亚维多利亚的一个案例研究应用中，旅行成本法被应用于评估游客对露营公园的使用，并应用选择模型技术来估计游客和居民的支付意愿（WTP），以避免未来的损失通过保护和适应工作，前滨露营地通道和海滩宽度。虽然游客和居民对公园和露营地以及海滩保护的价值观相似，但居民更重视海滩保护，而游客更重视保护公园和露营地。靠近墨尔本市区的景点和海滩的游客价值更高。