• Economic analysis of Marine Protected Areas: Bioeconomic Modeling and Economic Valuation Approaches 

      Bui, Bich Xuan (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2017-04-05)
      Marine protected areas (MPAs) are often established for conservation objectives. Benefits provided by MPAs exceed pure biodiversity conservation as they may include contributions to social and economic benefits of local communities. And though it is still debated, MPAs may provide a management tool for sustainable fisheries and/or solving conflicts of interests between users of marine resources. It ...
    • The impact of nature documentaries on public environmental preferences and willingness to pay: Entropy balancing and the Blue Planet II effect 

      Hynes, Stephen; Yeboah, Isaac-Ankamah; O'Neill, Stephen; Needham, Katherine; Bui, Bich Xuan; Armstrong, Claire (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-23)
      In this study, the discrete choice experiment approach was employed in a survey of the Scottish general public to analyze how respondents make tradeoffs between blue growth potential and marine ecosystem service delivery associated with the Mingulay cold water reef complex. Results indicate a higher willingness to pay for management options associated with the highest possible levels of marine litter ...
    • Informing management strategies for a reserve: Results from a discrete choice experiment survey 

      Bui, Bich Xuan; Sandorf, Erlend Dancke; Aanesen, Margrethe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-18)
      It is well-known that operating within the boundaries of a national park provides commercial actors with the opportunity to charge a price premium, though this has to a lesser degree been demonstrated for marine protected areas. We estimate national tourists' willingness-to-pay a price premium for boat trips in the Nha Trang Bay Marine Protected Are, Vietnam, using a discrete choice experiment. Our ...
    • Marine reserve creation and interactions between fisheries and capture-based aquaculture: A bio-economic model analysis 

      Bui, Bich Xuan; Armstrong, Claire W. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-12)
      The rapid growth of aquaculture affects wild fisheries in several ways. We present a bioeconomic model of the interaction between a commercial wild fishery and capture-based aquaculture that depends on harvest of wild juveniles. We assume that aquaculture reduces the intrinsic growth rate of the wild fish stock due to wild caught juveniles used as seeds, influencing wild stock size and commercial ...