Pricing and Revenue Capture: Converting Willingness to Pay into State and Private Revenue

While other authors will address in detail the many types of users and values to be derived from wildlife, a simple categorization is still required in this chapter to make clear the potential sources of value to be captured as revenue. Thomas and Miller (1988) and Randall et al. (1988) provide a useful categorization of types of users, uses and values. Table 1 presents a categorization adapted from Thomas and Miller (1988).