Measuring households' willingness to pay for water quality restoration of a natural urban lake in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Bueno, Esther Anne, Ancog, Rico, Obalan, Emma, Cero, Amyel Dale, Simon, Alvin Nowell, Macalintal, Maria Rozeni Malvecino, Bactong, Manuel, Jr., Lunar, Julius B., Buena, Geo Rhene, Sugui, Lemuel
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Water quality management—Philippines—Sampaloc Lake—Finance; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7726
• Institution: De La Salle University

Lakes are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to the impacts of unregulated industrialization in rapidly urbanizing areas. These threatened ecosystems suffer from policies that lack knowledge of the indirect yet significant roles of regulating ecosystem services. This study utilized contingent valu...