Willingness to Pay for Carbon Sequestration and Co-Benefits of Forests in Turkey

Abstract

Abstract:Scientists express concern about increasing levels of greenhouse gases mainly due to fossil fuel consumption and deforestation. In response to the latter, policy-makers have introduced a range of policy measures to conserve and enhance forest ecosystems for carbon sequestration. The costs for policy measures to maintain ecosystem services can be calculated easily, but especially non-market/non-use benefits of forests are not easy to estimate. Economics can help designing climate change policies by eliciting public preferences on different attributes of climate change and carbon sequestration. This study was prepared for the purpose of identifying per capita consumer/equivalent surplus or maximum willingness to pay and the total economic value in relation to forests to be established in Turkey to reduce air pollution around cities, to prevent the adverse effects of climate change and to sequester carbon. The data for the estimation of maximum willingness to pay, total economic value and co-benefits of forests were collected with a questionnaire form prepared according to the contingent valuation method. Analyses have been conducted by correlation analysis and regression analysis. According to the analyses, per capita consumer/equivalent surplus or maximum willingness to pay to establish a new forest was estimated at US$ 23.52 on average, while total economic value was estimated at US$ 270,443,962.68.

Estimation of Citizens’ Willingness to Pay for the Implementation of Payment for Local Forest Ecosystem Services: The Case of Taxes and Donations

“…Accordingly, focusing on a single specific service [7] or bundles of multiple services [24] are both appropriate. Many previous studies have focused on one specific ES, such as the following: provisioning clean non-timber forest products [25], the conservation of biodiversity [26], carbon absorption [27], regulating local climates [28], and fostering water resources [29]. Investigating the effect of one specific ES on human life is essential for understanding the relationship between the resource and its use from a human's perspective.…”

How Willing Are Herders to Participate in Carbon Sequestration and Mitigation? An Inner Mongolian Grassland Case

“…On the other hand, although herders have a relatively strong willingness to participate in carbon sequestration and mitigation measures in this area, there is also one group with relative high unwillingness to participation based on the conditional inference decision tree analysis. Similar to many previous studies, the family income plays a key role in improving herders' willingness [15,17,22,24]. This suggests that it is important to protect the herders' family income for improving their willingness.…”

“…However, both scientific and governmental studies that are related to carbon sequestration and mitigation mostly focused on agricultural, forestry, and wetland ecosystems, while few highlighted the grassland ecosystem to date [23][24][25]. In this study, Baoligen and Beilike ranch in Xilinhaote City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was taken as an example to evaluate the cognitive level and participation willingness of herders on grassland carbon sequestration and mitigation, and to analyze the factors that are influencing the willingness of herders on carbon sequestration and mitigation based on the survey targeting 404 herdsman households.…”

Valor de conservación en bosques de comunidades indígenas: Un estudio de caso en la Amazonia Peruana, San Jacinto y Puerto Arturo

“…Para el primer caso las variables EDU y ACT son determinantes en la DAC, lo que expresa que el nivel educación de sus miembros y el conocimiento de las actividades que mayor impacto generan a la comunidad, podrían en algún momento favorecer la implementación de un plan de desarrollo, resultados que están respaldados por los hallazgos de Amare et al (2016); Kwon, Kim, y Yoo (2018); Lamsal, Atreya, Pant, y Kumar (2015); Pham et al (2018); Seroa y Ortiz (2018). Para el segundo caso, Puerto Arturo al ser una comunidad más organizada y haber frenado por decisión comunal a la minería de oro, se desarrollan gestionando sus recursos de manera sustentable; recolección de B. excelsa (castaña), extracción de madera y agroforestería, por lo que los Ingresos y los Peligros potenciales son decisivos para aceptar un plan de desarrollo con fines de conservación, mostrando su consistencia con estudios reportados por Hjerpe y Hussain (2016); Iranah, Lal, Wolde, y Burli (2018); Lamsal et al (2015); Pham et al (2018); Ramli et al (2017); Tolunay y Başsüllü (2015).…”