the project. This is mainly due to the fact that we cannot distinguish the regulating
service value from value of provisioning and cultural service in choice experiment.
In cases when environmental effects last much longer than the project life span,
different time span should be used in the social cost and benefit analysis. Positive
present value of environmental benefits could outweigh the other costs. This is
important for environmental goods such as good sea water quality and biodiversity.
Finally, our study only focuses on the efficiency. Intra- and intergeneration equities
are also important when applying cost-benefit analysis to the environmental issues
(Munda 1996). These are issues we will improve in future research.
Acknowledgements The research is a collaboration between the TROPOS project (Grant Agreement No. 288192) (www.troposplatform.eu) and the MERMAID project (Grant Agreement
No. 288710) (http://www.mermaidproject.eu/). The TROPOS project and the MERMAIN project
were funded by the EU Commission as part of the Seventh Framework programme ‘Oceans of
Tomorrow’ theme, OCEAN.2011-1: Multi-use Offshore Platforms. Funding for Taiwan partners
comes from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under the EU FP7 Cooperation
Project – Modular Multi-Use Deep Water Offshore Platform Harnessing and Servicing Mediterranean, Subtropical and Tropical Marine and Maritime Resources (TROPOS), Project Number:
101-2923-I-110-001-MY3. Dr. Osiel González Dávila wishes to acknowledge the support granted
by Catedras Conacyt, Project 874 ‘Programa de Estudios Longitudinales, Experimentos y
Encuestas para el Análisis de la Pobreza’ during the writing up of the final draft. We are grateful to
all the participants who are involved in the collaboration.
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service value from value of provisioning and cultural service in choice experiment.
In cases when environmental effects last much longer than the project life span,
different time span should be used in the social cost and benefit analysis. Positive
present value of environmental benefits could outweigh the other costs. This is
important for environmental goods such as good sea water quality and biodiversity.
Finally, our study only focuses on the efficiency. Intra- and intergeneration equities
are also important when applying cost-benefit analysis to the environmental issues
(Munda 1996). These are issues we will improve in future research.
Acknowledgements The research is a collaboration between the TROPOS project (Grant Agreement No. 288192) (www.troposplatform.eu) and the MERMAID project (Grant Agreement
No. 288710) (http://www.mermaidproject.eu/). The TROPOS project and the MERMAIN project
were funded by the EU Commission as part of the Seventh Framework programme ‘Oceans of
Tomorrow’ theme, OCEAN.2011-1: Multi-use Offshore Platforms. Funding for Taiwan partners
comes from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under the EU FP7 Cooperation
Project – Modular Multi-Use Deep Water Offshore Platform Harnessing and Servicing Mediterranean, Subtropical and Tropical Marine and Maritime Resources (TROPOS), Project Number:
101-2923-I-110-001-MY3. Dr. Osiel González Dávila wishes to acknowledge the support granted
by Catedras Conacyt, Project 874 ‘Programa de Estudios Longitudinales, Experimentos y
Encuestas para el Análisis de la Pobreza’ during the writing up of the final draft. We are grateful to
all the participants who are involved in the collaboration.
Annex
Design 1: Aquaculture Facilities
4 Social Acceptance and Socio-economic Effects of Multi-use Offshore. . .
77