Premachandra Wattage
University of Portsmouth
30 Papers
106 Citations
Premachandra Wattage is an academic researcher from University of Portsmouth. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fisheries management & Contingent valuation. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 24 publications.
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Papers
Consumer choices for quality and sustainability labelled seafood products in the UK
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the potential of product differentiation in seafood products to promote sustainable management and exploitation of fish stocks within many countries, including the UK, and find that the scale of the effect has been shown to be greater for sustainability and quality labels than the effect generated by any of the other potential labels.
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Stakeholder preferences towards conservation versus development for a wetland in Sri Lanka
TL;DR: Distinct groups showing different concerns towards importance of objectives are shown to exist over the whole area and spatially, however, the consensus view of favouring conservation of the environment is indicated by 80% of the sample.
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Total economic value of wetland conservation in Sri Lanka identifying use and non-use values
TL;DR: In this article, a novel approach of a one and one-half bound based contingent valuation method (CVM) was implemented to measure the stakeholder willingness to pay (WTP) towards the conservation of fish, mangroves and water in a Sri Lankan wetland area.
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Recreational benefits from a marine protected area: a travel cost analysis of Lundy
TL;DR: In this article, a travel cost model is used to estimate the non-market recreational benefits arising from the Lundy Island Marine Nature Reserve (MNR), and the estimated mean consumer surplus for visiting Lundy was found to range from £359 to £574 per trip.
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Economic value of conserving deep-sea corals in Irish waters: a choice experiment study on marine protected areas
TL;DR: A choice experiment study carried out in Ireland in early 2007 aimed at partly addressing this uncertainty was carried out to determine the economic value held by the Irish public for the conservation of deep-sea corals using several variants of the concept of MPAs as discussed by the authors.
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