Local Community’s Willingness to Pay for Conserving Terubok (Tenualosa toli) Population in Sarawak

Over the year, the population of local terubok (Tenualosa toli) is being threatened due to over-exploitation. Terubok is one of the famous and important commercially fish in Malaysia which only found in Sarawak rivers. Nowadays, the landing of local terubok are very limited and difficult to obtain s...

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Main Author:	Nur Athirah, Binti Bakeri
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	HB Economic Theory
Online Access:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/27416/1/Nur%20Athirah%20ft.pdf
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spelling	my-unimas-ir.274162024-02-19T06:20:01Z Local Community’s Willingness to Pay for Conserving Terubok (Tenualosa toli) Population in Sarawak 2019-10-16 Nur Athirah, Binti Bakeri HB Economic Theory Over the year, the population of local terubok (Tenualosa toli) is being threatened due to over-exploitation. Terubok is one of the famous and important commercially fish in Malaysia which only found in Sarawak rivers. Nowadays, the landing of local terubok are very limited and difficult to obtain since 1980s. Environmental goods like terubok has a value to society, however, it is difficult to obtain and express these economic values in monetary terms as typically there are regarded as non-marketable values. The general objective of this study is to assess the monetary value that local people are willing to pay to conserve terubok in Sarawak. In order to realize the aims of the study, Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was employed. A total 1203 respondents involved in face-to-face interviews, which involved a simple random sampling selected for data collection. In the CVM method, a dichotomous choice CVM (DC-CVM) was employed to derive the respondents WTP for the sustainability of terubok. The logit model was used to elicit their WTP for the proposed bids. The results show that as the price increase, the probability of saying yes decreases. The estimated mean for the WTP is RM16, which indicates that local community are willing to pay at an average of RM16 per annum for the sustainability of terubok in Sarawak. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2019-10 Thesis http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/27416/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/27416/1/Nur%20Athirah%20ft.pdf text en validuser masters Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) Faculty of Economics and Business
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description	Over the year, the population of local terubok (Tenualosa toli) is being threatened due to over-exploitation. Terubok is one of the famous and important commercially fish in Malaysia which only found in Sarawak rivers. Nowadays, the landing of local terubok are very limited and difficult to obtain since 1980s. Environmental goods like terubok has a value to society, however, it is difficult to obtain and express these economic values in monetary terms as typically there are regarded as non-marketable values. The general objective of this study is to assess the monetary value that local people are willing to pay to conserve terubok in Sarawak. In order to realize the aims of the study, Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was employed. A total 1203 respondents involved in face-to-face interviews, which involved a simple random sampling selected for data collection. In the CVM method, a dichotomous choice CVM (DC-CVM) was employed to derive the respondents WTP for the sustainability of terubok. The logit model was used to elicit their WTP for the proposed bids. The results show that as the price increase, the probability of saying yes decreases. The estimated mean for the WTP is RM16, which indicates that local community are willing to pay at an average of RM16 per annum for the sustainability of terubok in Sarawak.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Nur Athirah, Binti Bakeri
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title	Local Community’s Willingness to Pay for Conserving Terubok (Tenualosa toli) Population in Sarawak
title_short	Local Community’s Willingness to Pay for Conserving Terubok (Tenualosa toli) Population in Sarawak
title_full	Local Community’s Willingness to Pay for Conserving Terubok (Tenualosa toli) Population in Sarawak
title_fullStr	Local Community’s Willingness to Pay for Conserving Terubok (Tenualosa toli) Population in Sarawak
title_full_unstemmed	Local Community’s Willingness to Pay for Conserving Terubok (Tenualosa toli) Population in Sarawak
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granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
granting_department	Faculty of Economics and Business
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Local Community’s Willingness to Pay for Conserving Terubok (Tenualosa toli) Population in Sarawak

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