caa a22 4500 463195256 CHVBK 20180406164921.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10669-007-9003-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10669-007-9003-1 Social and economic considerations in conserving wetlands of indo-gangetic plains: A case study of Kabartal wetland, India [Elektronische Daten] [Kalpana Ambastha, Syed Hussain, Ruchi Badola] The Kabartal wetland situated in the upper Indo-Gangetic flood plains in northern India is significant because of its hydrological and ecological services, and the socio-economic and cultural values that it represents. Despite being designated as a wildlife sanctuary, this wetland is under threat from anthropogenic pressures. As in the case of most wetlands, the reason is incomplete information on its ecological services and functions, breakdown of traditional management structures and the lack of appropriate and recognized property rights. Our study assesses the economic linkages between the Kabartal wetland and the local people living around it, through socio-economic surveys and Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). The major objective of the study was to determine the importance of this wetland to the local people and to give an indication of the distribution of the benefits among various stakeholders. The people in the region are poor, have low literacy levels and high dependence on Kabartal and more than 50% want that the wetland should be drained and the land used for agriculture. However, they are willing to participate in collaborative management initiatives with the state. The willingness of people to accept compensation, as an alternative to access to Kabartal wetland, regressed on various socio-economic and attitudinal parameters, gave an estimated mean value of US $27,500 per household over a period of 60 years. This value is a pointer of the total value of access to Kabartal wetland to the surrounding villagers and would be useful when decisions to compensate people for lost access to Kabartal are made. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Wetlands nationallicence Gangetic plains nationallicence Kabartal wetland sanctuary nationallicence Attitudes nationallicence Local people nationallicence Willingness To Accept nationallicence Ambastha Kalpana Forest and Ecology Division, National Remote Sensing Agency, Balanagar, 500 037, Hyderabad, India aut Hussain Syed Wildlife Institute of India, Post Box # 18, 248001, Dehra Dun, India aut Badola Ruchi Wildlife Institute of India, Post Box # 18, 248001, Dehra Dun, India aut The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/2(2007-06-01), 261-273 0251-1088 27:2<261 2007 27 10669 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9003-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9003-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ambastha Kalpana Forest and Ecology Division, National Remote Sensing Agency, Balanagar, 500 037, Hyderabad, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hussain Syed Wildlife Institute of India, Post Box # 18, 248001, Dehra Dun, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Badola Ruchi Wildlife Institute of India, Post Box # 18, 248001, Dehra Dun, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/2(2007-06-01), 261-273 0251-1088 27:2<261 2007 27 10669 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer