Exploring willingness-to-pay for the restoration and maintenance of reserved forests in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana

Amoah, Anthony; Jumah, Adusei; Korle, Kofi

doi:10.1016/j.fecs.2022.100041

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“…However, endogeneity is not addressed due to data limitations so our results should be interpreted as an association rather than causal impact. This in no way invalidates the results as a myriad of previous studies have investigated association and not causal impact (see for example, Tetteh et al., 2022 ; Amoah et al., 2022 ).…”

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confidence: 67%

“…In Figure 3 , the dependent variable (y) is the number of own child deaths. Given the positively skewed distribution of the dependent variable with a greater fraction of the observations being zero (0) and an outlier, it is appropriate to use a Tobit model for possible left and right censoring instead of an ordinary least square model (see Amoah et al., 2022 ). So, Eq.…”

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Child survival: the role of a mother's education

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2022

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Child survival: the role of a mother's education

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2022

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“…As in Mitchell and Carson (2013) and Amoah et al (2022a), a bid game (see Figure A1 in Appendix), a hypothetical state of the world of restored and well-maintained forest was described to the respondent after which the key questions asked are as follows:…”

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Drivers of willingness to pay for reforestation of urban ecosystems in Ghana

Korle

2023

IJSE

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PurposePopulation growth and urbanization pose several threats to terrestrial ecosystems, especially in forest ecological zones worldwide. This study examines the drivers of average willingness to pay (WTP) to restore urban forests in a developing country.Design/methodology/approachIt utilizes survey data of households and employs a robust Heckman two-step estimator with bootstrapping to address the research objective.FindingsThe study underscores the role of income, gender, education and perception of the health benefits of forests as the underlying determinants of restoration bids by respondents. These drivers have a positive and statistically significant effect on forest restoration. Education and gender appear to be the most effective by magnitude, followed by the perception of health benefits, then income. Attention is therefore drawn to relevant economic, sociocultural and psychological factors towards the goal of forestry to improve well-being in urban centres.Originality/valueThis paper seeks to add methodological insights to the literature on reforestation and land use changes in the Accra metropolitan area and the local population’s WTP for reforestation in this area. In principle, this is a case study informing about the values people hold for forests in Ghana and Africa, where a knowledge gap exists with respect to their socio-economic valuation.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-09-2022-0618

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“…The Willingness to Pay (WTP) is a concept that has been used extensively by researchers to obtain consumers' opinions regarding the value of non-market goods [5]. WTP can be estimated by Contingent 1145 (2023) 012014 IOP Publishing doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1145/1/012014 2 Valuation (CV).…”

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“…WTP can be estimated by Contingent 1145 (2023) 012014 IOP Publishing doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1145/1/012014 2 Valuation (CV). This method is useful as it is used in practice to represent the preferences of individuals as well as society in a variety of domains like the environment, education, health care, and others [5] . Valuation studies were conducted in developing countries, covering various types of ecosystems such as wetlands, national parks, and forests [2,9,14].…”

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Willingness to Pay for Conservation: A Study in Serinsim Substation, Kinabalu Geopark, Sabah

Dani

Mojiol

Fatt

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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This study aims to examine the willingness to pay (WTP) of visitors to pay an entrance fee for conservation purposes in Serinsim Substation, Kinabalu Geopark. The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was put into the application as the elicitation method. A total of 161 respondents were distributed using convenience sampling; however, 11 questionnaires were not usable because respondents did not completely answer them. An open-ended eliciting method was adopted and multiple linear regression was used to analyse the contingent valuation method analysis. The result shows that a total of 113 (75.3%) respondents are willing to pay more for the admission fee if the conservation fee were to be increased, while 37 (24.7%) respondents are unwilling to pay more. In addition, age and frequency of visits are the independent variables that have the greatest impact on visitors’ willingness to make. Admission fees can be increased to generate more revenue for Serinsim Substation’s efforts to conserve resources.

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Exploring willingness-to-pay for the restoration and maintenance of reserved forests in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana

Cited by 7 publications

References 48 publications

Child survival: the role of a mother's education

Child survival: the role of a mother's education

Drivers of willingness to pay for reforestation of urban ecosystems in Ghana

Willingness to Pay for Conservation: A Study in Serinsim Substation, Kinabalu Geopark, Sabah

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