Incorporating local visitor valuation information into the design of new recreation sites in tropical forests
| Autor: | J.R. DeShazo, Richard T. Carson, Ismariah Ahmad, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Kurt A. Schwabe |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Carson, Richard T, DeShazo, JR, Schwabe, Kurt A, Vincent, Jeffrey R, Ahmad, Ismariah |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economics and Econometrics
business.industry Visitor pattern Forest management Environmental resource management Ethnic group forest management Social Welfare non-market valuation recreation Environmental economics Tropical forest Geography Willingness to pay business Recreation General Environmental Science Valuation (finance) |
| Popis: | In rapidly industrializing countries, decisions need to be made as to what characteristics new tropical forest parks in or near urban areas should have. Using a discrete choice experiment, we estimate prospective visitors' willingness-to-pay for a range of forest park characteristics for a representative sample of Malaysian households in the Kuala Lumpur-Selangor region. To enable park managers to adapt park designs to important types of heterogeneity among park visitors, we further identify how these estimates vary across geography (i.e., residential location: urban, suburban, rural), major ethnic groups, and patterns of recreational behavior. We show how a model that includes a wide array of visitor heterogeneity can be used to identify configurations of park characteristics that maximize social welfare across both the general sample and specific subgroups of prospective visitors.' Refereed/Peer-reviewed |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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