Going to the Woods Is Going Home: Recreational Benefits of a Larger Urban Forest Site — A Travel Cost Analysis for Berlin, Germany

Bertram, Christine; Larondelle, Neele

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.10.017

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“…A previous study by Bertram and Larondelleb [5] showed that the distance between home and a recreation area impacts the frequency with which people participate in recreation. An analysis of the results shows that visitors who reside closer to the Calligraphy Greenway visited the site more frequently.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It can be inferred that, because the Calligraphy Greenway is located in the center of the city and the recreational group consists mostly of local residents, the recreational cost exerted a certain degree of influence on visitors' recreational preferences [5].…”

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“…The green space in cities provides citizens with a space that is suited for moderate for moderate exercise to relieve the stresses of daily life and to enjoy the beauty of a forest. Previous studies have shown that leisure activities are an essential part of modern life [4,5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Among several methods, the method based on economic evaluation treated the abstract value of each attribute as a monetary value and a change in the levels of these attributes showed the recreational preferences [4]. Various factors (such as the region, culture, social demographic structure, economic background and recreational habits) have been studied [5].…”

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Preferences of Tourists for the Service Quality of Taichung Calligraphy Greenway in Taiwan

Liu

Chuang

2018

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This study explores preferences for a set of attributes that characterize the recreational value of Calligraphy Greenway, the most notable greenbelt in Taichung City, Taiwan. As an urban green space, the Calligraphy Greenway has its own recreational attributes and visitors' preferences. This study uses the choice experiment method to determine visitors' preference levels for five major attributes to improve the recreational quality. On average, each visitor visited there 9.15 times in the past year and spent 2.37 h per visit. Of the five recreational attributes, satisfaction with recreational activity opportunities had the highest score and satisfaction with cultural landscape resources had the lowest score. The importance is ranked in the order of recreational service quality, total recreational cost, environmental landscape resources, cultural landscape resources and recreational activity opportunities. Considering difference of groups, female visitors were more concerned with cost and activities but male visitors were more concerned with service quality and natural/cultural landscape resources. Local visitors were more concerned with cost and activities but non-local visitors were more concerned with environmental/cultural landscape resources. Both were concerned with service quality. Based on the results, this study makes the following recommendations: cultural landscape resources and quality of recreational services and facilities should be improved and more complete interpretative educational guidance should be provided to increase visitors' willingness to visit. Additionally, it is suggested to set up various districts to cater for preferences of different visitor groups.

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Preferences of Tourists for the Service Quality of Taichung Calligraphy Greenway in Taiwan

Liu

Chuang

2018

Forests

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“…The latter result is unsurprising, given that the travel cost to visit Urban forests is generally low and relatively homogeneous among individuals. In addition, in the urban environment, individuals have many other leisure opportunities, which explains the statistically insignificant T C coefficient (Bertram and Larondelle 2017).…”

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A travel cost assessment of the demand for recreation in Swiss forests

Borzykowski

Baranzini

Maradan

2017

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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This paper analyzes the demand for recreation in Swiss forests using the individual travel cost method. We apply a two-steps approach, i.e., a hurdle zerotruncated negative binomial model, that allows accounting for a large number of nonvisitors caused by the off-site phone survey and over-dispersion. Given the national scale of the survey, we group forest zones to assess consumer surpluses and travel cost elasticities for relatively homogeneous forest types. We find that forest recreation activities are travel cost inelastic and show that recreation in Swiss forests provides large benefits to the population. The most populated area is associated with greater consumer surpluses, but the lack of recreational infrastructure may cause a lower recreational benefit in some zones. For these zones, recreational benefits may be lower than costs caused by maintenance. More efficient management would require either improving recreational infrastructure thus increasing benefits, or switching the forest status from recreational to biodiversity forest hence decreasing management costs.

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A Contingent Valuation Practice with Respect to Wildlife Trafficking Law Enforcement in Iran (Case Study: Panthera pardus saxicolor)

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Bostan²,

Sarhangzadeh

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Research and Management Practices for Conservation of the Persian Leopard in Iran

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Going to the Woods Is Going Home: Recreational Benefits of a Larger Urban Forest Site — A Travel Cost Analysis for Berlin, Germany

Cited by 57 publications

References 29 publications

Preferences of Tourists for the Service Quality of Taichung Calligraphy Greenway in Taiwan

Preferences of Tourists for the Service Quality of Taichung Calligraphy Greenway in Taiwan

A travel cost assessment of the demand for recreation in Swiss forests

A Contingent Valuation Practice with Respect to Wildlife Trafficking Law Enforcement in Iran (Case Study: Panthera pardus saxicolor)

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