Research Article | OPEN ACCESS
Willing to Pay in Urban Forests, Finance Support from Public Case Study, Shorab Urban Forest in Khoram Abad, Iran
1Rahim Maleknia, 1Mohsen Nourzad Moghaddam, 2Shirzad Geraili, 1Fatemeh Azizi and 1Samaneh Razm Ahang
1Department of Forestry Science, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran
2Department of Forestry Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2013 21:5119-5121
Received: November 19, 2012 | Accepted: January 01, 2013 | Published: May 20, 2013
Abstract
The goal of this study is to estimate the visitors’ willingness to pay at Shorab Urban Forest. The dichotomous choice Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was used to estimate the Willingness To Pay (WTP). A total of 210 respondents were interviewed via a questionnaire method in two periods to gather the data. Respondents also were asked the maximum amount they are willing to pay for entrance fee. Probit model was used to determine WTP. Results showed that different genders, ages and educational levels are using this park for recreational aim. Probit model showed that the average willingness to pay was 1325 Tomans. Since the family size average was 4.35, monthly entrance fee for every family was estimated at 5763 Tomans.
Keywords:
Lorestan, probit model, shorab, urban forest, willing to pay,
Competing interests
The authors have no competing interests.
Open Access Policy
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Copyright
The authors have no competing interests.
|
|
 |
ISSN (Online): 2040-7467
ISSN (Print): 2040-7459 |
 |
| Information |
|
|
|
|
| Sales & Services |
|
|
|
|
