Estimates of participation and willingness of pay  local communities in protecting and reviving the deserts areas (Case Study: Region NasrAbad, City Aran and Bidgol)

Eslamian, Zahra; Ghorbani, Mehdi; Rafiee, Hamed; Mesbahzadeh, Tayebe

doi:10.22059/jrwm.2017.131004.906

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ phd student

² tehran university

³ Tehran university

https://doi.org/10.22059/jrwm.2017.131004.906

Abstract

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.

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Journal of Range and Watershed Managment

Estimates of participation and willingness of pay local communities in protecting and reviving the deserts areas (Case Study: Region NasrAbad, City Aran and Bidgol)

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Volume 70, Issue 3
December 2017
Pages 581-592

Estimates of participation and willingness of pay local communities in protecting and reviving the deserts areas (Case Study: Region NasrAbad, City Aran and Bidgol)

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Volume 70, Issue 3December 2017Pages 581-592

Volume 70, Issue 3
December 2017
Pages 581-592