Comparison of rural and urban attitudes to the conservation of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka: Empirical evidence

Biological Conservation

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 327-342

  Bandara, Ranjith ^a   Tisdell, Clem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Asian elephant; Conservation attitudes; Contingent valuation; Elephant conservation; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; ELEPHANT; NATURE CONSERVATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

SRI LANKA;

ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 0037399857     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00241-0     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Bandara, R., Tisdell, C., 2002a. Conserving Asian elephants: economic issues illustrated by Sri Lankan concerns. In: Tisdell, C.A. (Ed.), The Economics of Conserving of Wildlife and Natural Areas. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 193-211.
2. Bandara, R., Tisdell, C., 2002b. Asian elephants as agricultural pests: damages, economics of control and compensation in Sri Lanka, Economics, Ecology and the Environment, working paper no. 65. School of Economics, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia.
3. Barnes, R.F.W., 1996. The conflict between human and elephants in the Central African forests. Mammal Review 28, 67-80.
4. Bateman, I.J., Langford, I.H., 1997. Non-users' willingness to pay for a national park: an application and critique of the contingent valuation method. Regional Studies 31, 571-582.
5. Brouwer, R., Powe, N., Turner, K., Bateman, I., Langford, I.H., 1999. Public attitudes to contingent valuation and public consultation. Environmental Values 8, 325-347.
6. De Boer, W.G., Baquete, D.S., 1988. Natural resource use crop damage and attitudes of rural people in the vicinity of the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique. Environmental Conservation 25, 208-218.
7. Desai, A.A., 1998. Conservation of Elephants and Human-Elephant Conflict. Unpublished Technical Report. Department of Wildlife Conservation, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
8. De Silva, M., 1998. Status and conservation of the elephant and the alleviation of man-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka. Gajah 19, 1-24.
9. De Silva, M., Attapattu, N., 1997. Alleviation of Wild Elephant-Human Conflict and Conservation of Elephants in the North-western Region of Sri Lanka (Mimeo). Department of Wildlife Conservation, Colombo.
10. Fernnado, A.B., 1993. Recent elephant conservation efforts in Sri Lanka. Gajah 10, 19-26.
11. Fiallo, E.A., Jacobson, S.K., 1995. Local communities and protected areas: attitudes of a rural residence towards conservation and Machalilla national park, Ecuador. Environmental Conservation 22, 241-249.
12. Gillingham, S., Lee, P.C., 1999. The impact of wildlife related benefits on the conservation attitudes of local people around the Selous game reserve, Tanzania. Environmental Conservation 26, 218-228.
13. Hadker, N., Sharma, S., David, A., Muraleedharan, T.R., 1997. Willingness to pay for Borivli national park: evidence from a contingent valuation. Ecological Economics 21, 105-122.
14. Harcourt, A.H., Pennington, H., Weber, A.W., 1986. Public attitudes to wildlife and conservation in third world. Oryx 20, 152-154.
15. Hart, L.A., O'Connell, C.E., 2000. Human conflict with African and Asian elephants and associated conservation dilemmas. Unpublished Paper. Center for Animals in Society in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Ecology, University of California, Davis, 95616 USA.
16. Heinen, J.T., 1993. Park-people relation in Kosi Tappu wildlife reserve, Nepal: a socio economic analysis. Environmental Conservation 20, 25-34.
17. Hanemann, M., 1984. Welfare evaluations in contingent valuation experiments with discrete responses. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 66, 332-341.
18. Hill, G.M., 1997. Crop raiding by wild vertebrates: the farmer's perspective in an agricultural community in western Uganda. International Journal of Pest Management 43, 77-84.
19. Hill, G.M., 1998. Conflicting attitudes towards elephants around the Budonogo forest reserve, Uganda. Environmental Conservation 25, 244-250.
20. Hoare, R.E., 1999. Determinants of human-elephant conflict in a land-use mosaic. Journal of Applied Ecology 36, 689-700.
21. Hoare, R.E., 2000. African elephants and human-elephant conflict: the outlook for coexistence. Oryx 34, 34-38.
22. Hoare, R.E., 2001a. Management implications of new research on problem elephants. Pachyderm, No 30, 44-48.
23. Hoare, R.E., 2001b. A Decision Support System for Managing Human-Elephant Conflict Situations in Africa. IUCN/ISSC African Elephant Specialist Group, P.O. Box 72440, Nairobi, Kenya.
24. Hone, J., 1994. Analysis of Vertebrate Pest Control. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
25. Infield, M., 1988. Attitudes of a rural community towards conservation and a local conservation area in natal, South Africa. Biological Conservation 45, 21-46.
26. Jaibi, R.M., Raa, T.T., 1998. An asymptotic foundation for logit models. Regional Science and Urban Economics 28, 75-90.
27. Jayawardene, J., 1998. Elephant and Mahaweli: a 15-year study. Sri Lanka Nature 2, 45-51.
28. Kanninen, B.J., Khawaja, M.S., 1995. Measuring goodness of fit for the double-bounded logit model. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77, 885-890.
29. Kemf, E., Santiapillai, C., 2000. Asian Elephants in the Wild: 2000 WWF Species Status Report. WWF-International, Gland, Switzerland.
30. Kotagama, S.W., 1997. Interaction its nature and trends. Proceedings of the Seminar on Conservation Plan for Elephants of Sri Lanka. United State Agency for International Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
31. Kulathunga, P.D.R., 1999. Sociological Study on Human-Elephant Conflict in Southern Sri Lanka. Unpublished Report. Open University of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
32. Lahm, S.A., 1996. A nationwide survey of crop-raiding by elephants and other species in Gabon. Pachyderm 21, 69-77.
33. Loomis, J., White, D., 1996. Economic benefits of rare and endangered species: summary and meta-analysis. Ecological Economics 18, 197-206.
34. Marnham, P., 1981. Dispatches from Africa. Abacus Edition. Sphere Books, London.
35. McFadden, D., 1974. Conditional logit analysis of qualitative choice behaviour. In: Zarembka, P.C. (Ed.), Frontiers in Econometrics. Academic Press, New York, pp. 105-142.
36. Newmark, W.D., Leonard, N.L., Sariko, H.I., Gamassa, D.G.M., 1993. Conservation attitudes of local people living adjacent to five protected areas in Tanzania. Biological Conservation 63, 177-183.
37. Nyhus, P.J., Tilson, R., Sumianto, P., 2000. Crop raiding elephants and conservation implication at Way Kambas national park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Oryx 34, 262-274.
38. Parry, D., Campbell, B., 1992. Attitudes of rural communities to animal wildlife and its utilisation in Chobe enclave and Mababe depression, Botswana. Environmental Conservation 19, 245-252.
39. Pate, J., Loomis, J., 1997. The effect of distance on willingness to pay values: a case study of wetland and salmon in California. Ecological Economics 20, 199-207.
40. Ramirez, O.A., Saunders, J.L., 1999. Estimating economic threshold for pest control: an alternative procedure. Journal of Economic Entomology 92, 391-401.
41. Ramakrishnan, B., Sivaganesan, N., Srivatava, R., 1997. Human interference and its impact on elephant corridors in South India. Gajah 18, 1-21.
42. Santiapillai, C., 1998. Human-elephant conflict management in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Nature 2, 5-7.
43. Santiapillai, C., Wijesundara, C., 2002. Non-consumptive use of elephants in Sri Lanka. The Island, Sunday ed., 6 January, Section 7, p. 1.
44. Sellar, C., Chavas, J.P., Stoll, J.R., 1986. Specification of the logistic model: the case of valuation of non-market goods. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 13, 382-390.
45. Stevens, T.H., Echeverria, J., Glass, R.J., Hager, T., 1991. Measuring the existence value of wildlife: what do CVM estimates really show? Land Economics 67, 390-400.
46. Streever, W.J., Perry, M.C., Searles, A., Stevens, T., Svoboda, P., 1998. Public attitudes and values for wetland conservation in New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Environmental Management 54, 1-14.
47. Sukumar, R., 1991. The management of large mammals in relation to male strategies and conflict with people. Biological Conservation 55, 93-102.
48. Sukumar, R., Gadgil, M., 1998. Male-female differences in foraging on crops by Asian elephants. Animal Behaviour 36, 1233-1255.
49. Thouless, C.R., 1994a. Conflict Between Human and Elephants in Sri Lanka. Technical Report. GEF Project, United Nations Office, Colombo Sri Lanka.
50. Thouless, C.R., 1994b. Conflict between human and elephants on private land in Northern Kenya. Oryx 2, 127-199.
51. Tisdell, C.A., 1979. Wildlife: a national asset or a pest to be managed? In Department of Science and the Environment, Environmental Economics, A.G.P.S., Canberra, pp. 79-87.
52. Tisdell, C.A., 1982. Wild Pigs: Environmental Pest or Economic Resource? Pergamon Press, Sydney, Oxford.
53. Tisdell, C.A., 2002. The Economics of Conserving Wildlife and Natural Areas. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
54. Tisdell, C.A., Xiang, Z., 1998. Protected areas, agricultural pests and economic damage: conflicts with elephants and pests in Yunnan. The Environmentalist 18, 109-118.
55. Weerakoon, D.K., 1999. Ecology and Ranging Behaviour of Wild Elephants and Human-Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka. Unpublished Report. Department of Zoology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
56. White, P.C.L., Bennett, A.C., Hayes, E.J.V., 2001. The use of willingness to pay approaches in mammal conservation. Mammal Review 31, 151-167.
57. Whitehead, J., 1992. Ex-ante willingness to pay with supply and demand uncertainty: implications for valuing a sea turtle protection programme. Applied Economics 24, 981-988.
58. Yoo, S.S., Kim, T.Y., Lee, J.K., 2000. Modelling zero response data from willingness to pay surveys: a semi-parametric estimation. Economic Letters 71, 191-196.
59. Zivin, J., Hueth, B.M., Zilberman, D., 2000. Managing a multiple-use resources: the case of feral pig management in California rangeland. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 39, 189-204.