Estimation of the monetary value of biodiversity in the Central Alborz Protected Area

Otaghvar, Yasaman Talebi; Alamdarlo, Hamed Najafi; Esmaili, Rohollah; Asadi, Mohamad Ali; Mosavi, Seyed Habibollah; Vakilpoor, Mohamad Hasan

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-17147-5

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“…Maintaining traditional agriculture with extensive livestock farming allows for further conservation of biodiversity [31]. The interest in BIO is illustrated by coefficients of "increase in existing floristic species" (BIO_3) and "increase in existing floristic species and diffusion in several areas" (BIO_4), both parameters being significant and positive.…”

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“…They assessed people's preference for the traditional alpine agricultural economy, a possibility encouraged by other authors [28], adding that expensive traditional livestock methods, such as transhumance, could aid in the conservation of traditional grasslands and their ecosystem functions. Biodiversity is a crucial element for the value of mountain agricultural ES, as investigated in the literature [31]. Our contribution to the existing literature on ESs of mountain agriculture is related to three main elements.…”

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“…The third attribute (WAT) concerns the maintenance of traditional water-management systems by mountain farms, an issue rarely addressed by the CE literature [31], and considered a regulating ES. However, this issue is very important because agro-sylvopastoral activities and related services have a strong capacity to counter economic and environmental shocks and pressures [37].…”

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Tourists’ Perception of Ecosystem Services Provided by Mountain Agriculture

Mazzocchi

Sali

2022

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Ecosystem services (ESs) can be defined as the values and benefits provided by ecosystems for human well-being. The main characteristic of ESs is that they benefit people. Agriculture is an important provider of ESs for society, culture, the environment and the economy. In mountain areas, agriculture embodies different functions. This work assesses the value of ESs provided by mountain farms according to mountain tourists’ opinions, using a Choice Experiments (CEs) approach and quantitative surveys. CEs allow multiple scenarios with different attributes associated with monetary values that respondents had to choose. The sample comprised 840 mountain tourists, interviewed through an online survey in April 2020. The main results show that the ESs provided by agriculture and preferred by tourists are the maintenance of pastures and grazing, which are considered to shape the mountain landscape and provide for cultural and environmental ESs. Moreover, biodiversity conservation is another one of the most appreciated attributes, being fundamental for protecting the environment. A noticeable result is the importance associated with the ES provided by agriculture related to the regulation of hydrogeological assets, meaning that the awareness of the hydrogeological instability of mountain slopes is widespread and that tourists are sensitive to this topic.

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Tourists’ Perception of Ecosystem Services Provided by Mountain Agriculture

Mazzocchi

Sali

2022

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“…Other authors have analysed the impacts on tourist satisfaction and on tourists shifting to alternative destinations [19]. These studies have concluded that tourists are sensitive to the threats that affect terrestrial wildlife, natural protected areas, and forests, and have higher preferences for maintaining and improving wildlife species' status than the other attributes [99]. Very few have attempted to provide a holistic approach by analysing the wide spectrum of elements of the land capital impacted by CC across diverse tourist destinations that are exposed with varying degrees of intensity [11], which is, in fact, the main contribution of the present research.…”

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The Impact of Degradation of Islands’ Land Ecosystems Due to Climate Change on Tourists’ Travel Decisions

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Ledesma

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The degradation of terrestrial ecosystems may change the perceived value of destinations for tourists. This article analyses tourists’ travel decisions when the land ecosystems of the destinations they are planning to visit are threatened by climate change impacts. More specifically, it analyses tourists’ willingness to pay for their holidays at island destinations endangered by the increase in forest fires, terrestrial wildlife losses, water shortages, and damages to infrastructure and cultural heritage. With this aim in mind, a discrete choice model was designed and empirically tested with a representation of European travellers, using an alternative specific conditional logistic regression. The results show that the sharp increase in the occurrence of wildfires has had the greatest negative impact on tourists’ willingness to pay for their next holiday at the affected tourist destination, followed by severe losses in terrestrial wildlife and significant damage to cultural heritage. This study highlights the importance of having accurate information on future climate change conditions impacting land attributes at the local level, not only to be more effective in the early prevention of threats to prioritise but also to confront the potential damage to the tourism economy more efficiently.

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Willingness to Pay for New Technologies and Environmental Technologies in Hotels: A Multinomial Logit Approach

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Tiwari

2023

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Estimation of the monetary value of biodiversity in the Central Alborz Protected Area

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Tourists’ Perception of Ecosystem Services Provided by Mountain Agriculture

Tourists’ Perception of Ecosystem Services Provided by Mountain Agriculture

The Impact of Degradation of Islands’ Land Ecosystems Due to Climate Change on Tourists’ Travel Decisions

Willingness to Pay for New Technologies and Environmental Technologies in Hotels: A Multinomial Logit Approach

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