La méthode des choix multi-attributs appliquée aux Monts d'Arrée

Abstract

Rural areas produce landscape amenities that improve users’ welfare. Because people’s demand for such amenities is growing, public decision makers have to deal with it. Knowing the benefits of landscape changes is useful for decision makers in order to help them in their decision process. Economic valuation of landscape changes is implemented in this article with the choice experiment method. This technique asks respondents what they prefer between different hypothetical landscape scenarios, each of them illustrating the landscape that would be if a particular political measure is taken. We apply this approach to the Monts d’Arrée landscape in Finistère where landscape changes are particularly interesting and decision makers have to take into account such landscape issues in their debate. The economic model used gives the implicit prices of the landscape attributes of the study. From them, it calculates the consumer surplus derived from different landscape hypothetical programs since a landscape measure usually deals with more than one attribute.