Tourists' Willingness to Pay for Restoration of Traditional Agro-forest Ecosystems Providing Biodiversity: Evidence from India

Sardana, Kavita

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.12.015

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“…Income has a significant and positive effect on travel costs. This is consistent with the theoretical assumption that higher-income visitors will spend more to enjoy nature tourism areas, as reported by [52] in Kodagu District, India, [53] concerning Nature-Based Tourism (NBT), and [54] in Kalam Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Distance and travel time are synchronous factors, where the distance is directly proportional to the travel time from the visitor's origin to the location of a tourism site.…”

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Examining the Economic Value of Tourism and Visitor Preferences: A Portrait of Sustainability Ecotourism in the Tangkahan Protection Area, Gunung Leuser National Park, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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North Sumatra Province has the Tangkahan Nature Tourism Area, which represents ecotourism managed by local communities, established in 2001, which has now become the leading tourism destination of North Sumatra both locally and internationally. Tangkahan ecotourism is an example of payment for environmental services for the Tangkahan community, which initially carried out illegal logging in the mount Leuseur national park and then agreed to preserve the national park through ecotourism. This study aims to analyze the economic value of tourism and the preferences of tourists to revisit, along with the factors that influence them, where these conditions can be an illustration of the sustainability of Tangkahan ecotourism. The travel cost method is used to calculate the economic value of Tangkahan Ecotourism environmental services. The factors that affect the economic value, intensity of visits, and interest in revisiting, were analyzed using multiple linear regression. The results showed that Tangkahan ecotourism has a relatively high economic value, supported by the intensity and interest of tourist visits. Factors that affect the economic value and preferences of tourist visits can be managed for the sustainability of Tangkahan ecotourism so as not to lose the economic value of the ecotourism environmental services.

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Examining the Economic Value of Tourism and Visitor Preferences: A Portrait of Sustainability Ecotourism in the Tangkahan Protection Area, Gunung Leuser National Park, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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“…When it was difficult for the respondents to specify a WTP amount, we provided them with multiple PCs as different options. We designed the PC options based on the studies by Solomon (2009) and Sardana et al (2019) [68,69]. Based on the preliminary online survey results, we roughly estimated the scope of respondents' WTP for RPER programs and determined the specific amounts to put on the PCs ("0, 5, 10 … 900, 1000, more than 1000 RMB").…”

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How Environmental Awareness and Knowledge Affect Urban Residents’ Willingness to Participate in Rubber Plantation Ecological Restoration Programs: Evidence from Hainan, China

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NengRui

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The rapid expansion of rubber plantations in Asian countries has led to various environmental problems. Therefore, local governments are implementing rubber plantation ecological restoration (RPER) programs as an essential solution. However, such programs can be implemented only if residents are intensely involved. Based on a survey of 521 urban households in Hainan Province, China, this study investigates the effect of environmental awareness and knowledge on residents’ willingness to participate in RPER programs. We employ a double-hurdle (DH) model to estimate residents’ participation in two stages. First, we determine whether residents wish to participate or not (PN). Then, we measure residents’ degree of willingness to participate (DWP). The results show that residents’ environmental awareness has a significant positive effect on whether they wish to PN but has no impact on their DWP. By contrast, residents’ environmental knowledge has a significant positive effect on whether they wish to PN and their DWP. The moderating effect shows that residents’ environmental knowledge significantly weakens the positive effects of their environmental awareness on whether they wish to PN. Moreover, residents’ age, educational level, employment, and place of residence substantially influence their DWP. The findings in this study can provide useful insights for policymaking on improving rubber plantation ecosystems.

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“…This variable was the largest because most of the participants in the interview were young people, who according to the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada do Brasil (IPEA, 2018) are the age group that earns the least and is most vulnerable under social conditions in Brazil. Other studies (Barbier;Hanley, 2017;Nurmi;Ahtiainen, 2018;Sardana, 2019), pointed out equal conditions in relation to the salary range, showing that people who earn less have greater WTP for conservation of ecosystem services than people who have higher purchasing power. Following, we will present the WTP results that indicated clear preferences for possibilities that produce improvements in water quality in the Riacho do Pontal river basin and in the conservation of Caatinga in the Brazilian semi-arid region.…”

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Willingness to pay for water ecosystem services in a river basin of the in South America largest semi-arid region

Reis¹,

Leitão

Galvíncio³

2022

Nova econ.

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This study presents the result on the Willingness To Pay (WTP) of Ecosystem Services (ES) regulating water a Brazilian watershed. The Brazilian semi-arid region is the largest semi-arid region in South America, this area is ranked as the most populated semi-arid region in the world. 393 questionnaires were applied using the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). Of the respondents in the basin territory, over (77.9%) expressed a positive WTP for maintaining the (SE) of Water. The payment for the conservation of the (ES) water regulators was R$10.00/month, the quality of water purification seemed to be an important aspect in terms of the value assigned in the payment. On the other hand, the protest votes for non-payment, which were (22.1%), pointed to the payment of too many taxes. The (WTP) for water conservation was defined by environmental interest and the loss of the (SES) provided Caatinga.

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Tourists' Willingness to Pay for Restoration of Traditional Agro-forest Ecosystems Providing Biodiversity: Evidence from India

Cited by 25 publications

References 34 publications

Examining the Economic Value of Tourism and Visitor Preferences: A Portrait of Sustainability Ecotourism in the Tangkahan Protection Area, Gunung Leuser National Park, North Sumatra, Indonesia

Examining the Economic Value of Tourism and Visitor Preferences: A Portrait of Sustainability Ecotourism in the Tangkahan Protection Area, Gunung Leuser National Park, North Sumatra, Indonesia

How Environmental Awareness and Knowledge Affect Urban Residents’ Willingness to Participate in Rubber Plantation Ecological Restoration Programs: Evidence from Hainan, China

Willingness to pay for water ecosystem services in a river basin of the in South America largest semi-arid region

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