Title Page
Abstract
List of Abbreviations
Contents
Chapter I. Introduction 13
Chapter II. Literature Review 16
2.1. Importance of wetland ecosystems 16
2.2. Drivers to loss and change of wetland ecosystems 17
2.3. Why needed the conservation of wetlands 17
2.4. Community's dependency on Moeyungyi wetland wildlife sanctuary 18
2.5. Ecosystem services valuation 20
2.6. Willingness to Pay(WTP) with Contingent Valuation Approach 21
Chapter III. Methodology 26
3.1. Study Area 26
3.2. Survey design 27
3.2.1. Questionnaires 27
3.2.2. Simple Random Sampling 30
3.3. Contingent Valuation Method(CVM) 30
Chapter IV. Results and Discussion 32
4.1. Socio-economics of the respondents 32
4.1.1. Household size of the population 34
4.1.2. Length of stay in villages around MWWS 35
4.2. Environmental attitude of the respondents 36
4.2.1. Participationin the public awareness workshop for MWWS 36
4.3. Estimation of Willingness to Pay(WTP) 38
4.3.1. Responses for WTP on conservation of MWWS 38
4.3.2. Reason of acceptance for conservation program 39
4.4. Estimation of WTP using double-bounded model 40
Chapter V. Conclusion 45
Literature Cited 47
Appendix 51
요약 71
Table 1. Classification of Valuation Approaches 21
Table 2. The number of respondents 29
Table 3. Respondents' socio-demographic characteristics 32
Table 4. Descriptive statistics for age, education and monthly income 33
Table 5. Household size 34
Table 6. Assessment of environmental attitude on wetland ecosystem 37
Table 7. Responses of the respondents to the proposed bids 38
Table 8. Reason for WTP on MWWS 39
Table 9. Description of variables 41
Table 10. Model without control variables 41
Table 11. Model with explanatory variables 43
Table 12. Mean of WTP 44
Figure 1. Water consumption from different sources 19
Figure 2. Components of ecosystem valuation 20
Figure 3. WTP, Acceptable price, Reference price 22
Figure 4. Location map of Moeyungyi Wetland Wildlife Sanctuary 27
Figure 5. Location Map of study site 30
Figure 6. Length of stay of the population 35
Figure 7. Number of participated respondents in workshop 36
Figure 8. Number of participating times in the meeting 37