Subject Areas : Agricultural Economics Research

Mehrdad Moradi ^{1 *} , Mehriyar Sadrolashrafi ² , Reza Moghaddasi ³ , سعید یزدانی ⁴

1 - دانش آموخته دکتری دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم وتحقیقات، گروه اقتصاد کشاورزی، تهران، ایران
2 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم وتحقیقات، گروه اقتصاد کشاورزی، تهران، ایران
3 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم وتحقیقات، گروه اقتصاد کشاورزی، تهران، ایران
4 - استاد گروه اقتصاد کشاورزی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم وتحقیقات، تهران، ایران

Received: 2012-05-04 Accepted : 2013-01-01 Published : 2013-02-03

Keywords: Contingent Valuation, Forests Park, Recreational value, Yasouj,

Abstract :

Forests play a significant role in human beings welfare. Most of forest benefits either is valued in low price is or isnt accounted at all. This under-valuation often leads to inadequate allocation of resources and incorrect forest management and planning for forest maintance. Recreational use of forest is one of the important benefits of forest. Kohgiluye and Boyer Ahmad province has vast forests which have provided suitable grounds for recreational use of people in society. The goal of this study has been to estimate recreational value of yasouj forest park and the amount of visitor’s willingness to payment. The data for this research has been collected by occasional sampling and from questionnaires based on contingent valuation (CV) and double-bounded dichotomous choice (DC) from 188 visitors of yasouj forest park. Logit model was used to determine effective factors in individual willing to pay (WTP), based on maximum likelihood method. The findings show that 86.9 percent of visitors have accepted to pay for coming to this forest park. Results show that bid, income, education and household size variables have significant effect on WTP; however, gender and age variables statistically dont have such effect. The mean amount of willingness to pay is 992.73 RLS per visitor and total annual recreational value for yasouj forest park is 7.43 Billion RLS.

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