Contingent Valuation of Built Heritage Properties in a Transition Country: A Case of Lithuania / Nekilnojamojo Kultūros Paveldo Vertinimas Taikant Numatomojo Vertinimo Metodą Pereinamojo Laikotarpio Valstybėje: Lietuvos Atvejis

Abstract

InTernaTIonal JoUrnal of sTraTeGIC ProPerTy manaGemenT Issn 1648-715X print / Issn 1648-9179 online 2011 Volume 15(4): 393-415 http://dx.ABstrACt. The built heritage began to be seen not only as a real estate property and an object of cultural value but also as a multifaceted and multidimensional cultural good in the second half of the 20 th century. It has increasingly attracted the interests of economists, who attempted to measure not only its economic impact, but also the total economic value. The spectrum of the categories of the economic value of the built heritage and the valuation methods applied has expanded in the course of time. Currently it encompasses market and nonmarket economic values and numerous valuation techniques based on the stated and revealed data, including the Contingent Valuation method (CVm). The number of contingent valuation (CV) studies aimed at valuing the non-market benefits of the built heritage in developed and developing countries is growing. However, the post-communist transition countries are quite an exception. The applications of the CVm in the developing countries have demonstrated that the sociocultural context must be taken into account and the special measures must be applied in order to get the reliable results. This sensitivity of the CVm to the sociocultural context encourages analyzing the peculiarities of its application in the post-communist transition countries. The main aim of the article is to determine the peculiarities of the social environment of the post-communist transition countries and their possible influence on the CV results. The findings of the research can be useful not only to the fields of CV survey design and benefit transfer, but also to the broad and rapidly developing field of the post-communist studies, for the better understanding the hidden values and potential of the built heritage properties, and the sustainable management of the built environment.

Values, Memory, and the Role of Exploratory Methods for Policy-Design Processes and the Sustainable Redevelopment of Waterfront Contexts: The Case of Officine Piaggio (Italy)

“…Others consider WTP as a method to predict future demand curves and estimate possible private monetary contributions helping the financial sustainability of a project [62], instead. Then, recent studies have mainly considered it as a tool useful to translate in objective terms-through the means of monetary amounts-subjective judgments and to identify possible correlations between expressed WTP amounts and characteristics of respondents (e.g., socio-demographics but also knowledge and direct experience of the sites under investigation) [61,63,64]. In this last case the aim is to identify possible WTP trends and sometimes to orient the policy-design and decision-making process (e.g., selecting which interventions should be prioritized, establishing appropriate fundraising strategies, but also gaining a greater awareness about the relationships possibly occurring between specific characteristics of individuals and the attitudes towards a given site).…”

Sociologiniai urbanizuotos aplinkos tyrimai: patirtis ir kryptys

“…Taikant šį metodą, respondentams pildant anketą ar duodant interviu prašoma įvardyti maksimalią pinigų sumą, kurią jie sutiktų mokėti už vertinamą kultūrinę gėrybę ar su ja susijusius privalumus esant tam tikroms hipotetinėms aplinkybėms. Literatūros analizė atskleidė, kad šis metodas taikytas istoriniams statiniams ir pastatams, istoriniams pastatų kompleksams bei istorinėms vietovėms vertinti (Gražulevičiūtė-Vileniškė, 2009). Metodo taikymo istoriniams statinių ir pastatų kompleksams patirtis apima sakralinių ansamblių (Mourato ir kt., 2002), miestų aikščių (Alberini ir kt., 2003) ir rezidencijų ansamblių (pvz., Kim ir kt., 2007) vertinimo atvejus.…”

“…Metodo taikymo istoriniams statinių ir pastatų kompleksams patirtis apima sakralinių ansamblių (Mourato ir kt., 2002), miestų aikščių (Alberini ir kt., 2003) ir rezidencijų ansamblių (pvz., Kim ir kt., 2007) vertinimo atvejus. Nors metodo praktinis taikymas kelia su rezultatų patikimumu ir tikslumu susijusių iššūkių (Gražulevičiūtė-Vileniškė, 2009), vertinimo rezultatai naudingi atskleidžiant urbanizuotos aplinkos socialinį-ekonominį potencialą, kuris liktų nepastebėtas, taikant įprastinius kultū-rinio ir ekonominio vertinimo metodus.…”

In pursuit of the heritage and place synergy: the environmental impact of Panemunė Castle as a heritage property and entirety of values. A study.

“…The theorist of architecture Indrė Gražulevičiūtė-Vileniškė presents a structure of non-market assessment of immovable cultural heritage, providing also a detailed context. The author highlights the socio-economic aspects, as the role of heritage as a social and economic asset continues to be underrated, and the preservation of heritage properties is perceived as a burden on economic development (Gražulevičiūtė-Vileniškė [26]). Presented is one of the directions in the analysis of the socio-economic dimension of the cultural heritagethe assessment done in non-market terms: The non-market direct use is perceived as living in a historical setting without direct recreational, visual non-commercial utilisation of the heritage properties.…”

“…The conception of non-market values underpins the case for the inclusion of society into the processes of heritage preservation and the assessments by the public have to feed into the overall process of assigning value. "This creates opportunities to establish the decrease in non-market utilisation and nonutilisation values of the heritage property as experienced by society in cases when the property is damaged or destructed, and an increase in value after the restoration of the property " (Gražulevičiūtė-Vileniškė [27]). Society thus becomes an actively engaged actor, who, depending on communication strategies, also contributes to the creation of a new image, a new face or identity.…”