Nikbibi Bozorgzadeh; Mohammad Reza Rigi; Mohammadreza Sasouli; Farhad Zolfaghari
Abstract
Nowadays, the destructive factors of the environment and natural resources are so widespread that the alarm of destruction of these natural wonders is sounded all over the world. Due to the importance of this topic, the study was conducted to estimate the willingness to pay of local communities to conserve ...
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Nowadays, the destructive factors of the environment and natural resources are so widespread that the alarm of destruction of these natural wonders is sounded all over the world. Due to the importance of this topic, the study was conducted to estimate the willingness to pay of local communities to conserve and restore desert areas of Gosht plain in Saravan in order to attract people's participation to finance projects for the preservation and rehabilitation of desert areas. The sampling process was conducted using Cochran's formula with 303 samples by simple random sampling method. Conditional valuation method and Logit model were used to estimate the people’s willingness to pay. The results showed that gender, education, participation in rural government institutions, employment of trusted executives, the history of participation in educational-developmental classes, being native, income and directly being beneficiaries from the environment of the region has a positive and significant effect on the willingness of people to pay for Gosht plain protection. The variable of age and suggested amount had a negative and significant effect on willingness to pay, but the size of household had no significant effect on willingness to pay. Moreover, the variables of existence of a management organization for participation, acquaintance with the environment, having environmental literacy, and government financial support of the projects had a positive and significant effect on the willingness to pay for the Gosht plain protection. The average of peoples’ willingness to pay monthly in 1398, was obtained 113890 Rials per each person.
Zahra Eslamian; Mehdi Ghorbani; hamed rafiee; tayebe mesbahzadeh
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In recent years, natural resource economists evaluate and assess the role of natural resources in the welfare of people have put on their agenda. This study, people's willingness to participation in protecting and reviving the desert area NasrAbad, examined the using conditional valuation and tow-dimensional, ...
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In recent years, natural resource economists evaluate and assess the role of natural resources in the welfare of people have put on their agenda. This study, people's willingness to participation in protecting and reviving the desert area NasrAbad, examined the using conditional valuation and tow-dimensional, dual choice questioner. To estimate the willingness to pay logit regression model was used based on the maximum likelihood method, the parameters of the model were estimated. Results suggest that age, occupation, education and horticultural activities, a native of the region, climate change, poor management officials, family income and number of family members, significant positive effect and gender, agricultural activities, overgrazing of livestock , expansion of urban land and Bid a significant negative effect on the bid people are willing to pay. Deontologist people units 0/868 have likely to pay more compared with Cosequentialists people the Marginal effect of these variables to be allocated. the average willingness to pay of the Deontologist and Cosequentialists people in this study to participation in protecting and reviving the deserts of Nasr Abad is estimated to be 32586 and 6524 Rials respectively.
