Table 2 Respondents giving reasons for refusing to pay the given discrete choice amount

1 = I cannot afford to pay/I have no spare income.

128

51.0

2 = I feel the environmental improvement of U Minh Thuong is unimportant.

3

1.2

3 = Being far from the place, I feel paying anything is irrelevant to me.

13

5.2

4 = I do not believe paying will solve the problem.

18

7.2

5 = I feel this improvement will take place without my contribution.

7

2.8

6 = I do not trust the institutions that will handle the money for this conservation work.

30

12.0

7 = It should be the government’s responsibility since it has money from tax revenues.

41

16.3

8 = Other reasons.

11

4.4